Tony Pastor

Antonio Pastor born the May 28th 1837 - deceased the August 26th 1908 Elegant Pasteur

Antonio Pastor was interpreter of variety and owner of a theater become one of the pillars of the American light comedy in the middle of the nineteenth century. The strongest elements of its entertainments were a chauvinist mark of patriotism américian with a powerful engagement to attract an assistance of all edges what was revolutionist in the theaters of this time.

he was born with Brooklyn, a district of New York and chose a career in the show business with very an young age by obtaining a place of singer to P.T. Barnum 'S " Scudder' S American Museum". During several years it goes worked in reviews of troubadour, the world of the circus and also as comic singer in reviews of variety. It was established as type-setter of popular songs for one four years period in a bar located 444 Broadway in the district of Bowery. Pastor published “singers”, of the books of song of its compostition in which are included popular airs. The music did not have any importance because it supposed that its audience would learn through what it listened to. The topics of its music could shock a public neophyte but they were more of the topics ribalds and humorous that revolutionary.

According to the mood of time, Pastor wrote several songs which have negatively depicts the ethnic stereotypes, such as adventures of smuggling or history of a released slave. After the slave is released by the soldiers of the nion, it attends a meeting of anti-slavery where the abolitionists try to rub with far its dark skin. The slave concludes by a song…

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