The tangos of Homero Expósito strike a special balance in the songbook, achieving the highest measure of poetic quality while remaining firmly grounded in the genre.
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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.
By the early 1930s, outdoor gas lighting was already becoming a thing of the past. Electric power was rolling in to replace it, with its much brighter and safer illumination… and very often with a taller and less romantic design.
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.
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…
Lyricist Homero Expósito (1918-1987) composed lyrics with a more impressionistic style, borrowing techniques from Symbolist poetry but with more sentiment and nostalgia than occult mystique.