This is Part 11 out of 14 on the series, Macrine J.Katague, Celebration of Life.
Macrine and I dancing the Rumba, Boac, Marinduque, 2011
Macrine and I loved to dance the Tango, Cha Cha and Rumba. A few decades ago while we were vacationing in Miami Beach, Florida staying at the Fontainebleau Hotel*, we participated in a dance contest. We won first place dancing the Cha Cha. But Tango is our favorite dance and La Cumparsita is our favorite tango music. In this episode I am posting two version of La Cumparsita(instrumental and vocal).
Meanwhile enjoy this Tango music, El Choclo sang by Julio Iglesias
Tango music also reminds me of Macrine's first cousin Yong Nieva and wife Ivy Almario and their Beach Resort, Amana in Cawit, Marinduque
Macrine and I with Yong Nieva, Amana Resort, Marinduque, 2011
http://livinginmarinduquephilippines.blogspot.com/2012/11/improve-your-sex-life-by-dancing.html
A Short History of Fontainebleau Hotel
*Envisioning the creation of one of the most opulent and magnificent hotels in the world, hotelier Ben Novack purchased the Firestone Mansion, home of auto tire magnate Harvey Firestone in 1952 for $2.3 million. He tapped Morris Lapidus, who was known for his modernist sensibilities and flair for theatrical spaces, to be the hotel’s project architect. When it opened in 1954, Fontainebleau Miami Beach was the largest and most luxurious hotel in South Florida. Located on the oceanfront in the heart of Millionaire's Row, Fontainebleau Miami Beach is one of the most historically and architecturally significant hotels on Miami Beach. Its signature features included a 17,000-square-foot lobby with the now-legendary “Stairway to Nowhere,” six acres of formal gardens designed to replicate Versailles and thousands of dollars in antique furnishings to authentically convey the hotel’s French period theme.
Through the 1950s and 1960s, the hotel reigned as Miami’s leading resort and Lapidus’ gently curving façade came to symbolize the very essence of glamorous Miami Beach. For nearly 25 years, the Miami Beach hotel was so well-known that no sign was necessary to identify it. Celebrities and entertainers, ranging from Elvis Presley and Bob Hope to Lucille Ball and Judy Garland, made the hotel so popular that Novack was once forced to post armed guards to bar non-guests from entering.
At
that time we were not aware of the above history. However, we know we
were staying in a luxurious hotel. This is an example of our lives well
lived. Rest in Peace, My Love!! For more details on Tangos read:
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