One of the most stirring visions of the Buenos Aires landscape to emerge during the tango’s Golden Age appears in Homero Expósito’s 1942 song “Tristezas de la calle Corrientes.” The lyrics show him at the height of his poetic powers, as he depicts the city’s most vibrant thoroughfare—calle Corrientes, which for years had been one of the tango world’s iconic streets.

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The beautiful tango “Yuyo verde” offers a clear example of the highly emotional atmosphere Homero Expósito was able to conjure up with his impressionistic style of songwriting.

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Homero Expósito’s lyrics for the 1943 tango “Percal” offer a fine example of how tangos “talk to each other” across the decades. The impressionistic story in the song blossoms out of a single word—percale, the smooth cotton weave used for modest dresses in the early 1900s…

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