Anyone hearing that the San Antonio Symphony Strauss Festival concert Friday night revolved around waltz music might have expected to hear pieces by Johann Strauss II of the 1800s. Nope. “Blue Danube” ...
The first operetta by Johann Strauss II took Vienna by storm at its premiere in 1871. His second followed in 1873 and his third — Die Fledermaus — in 1874. What happened to 1872? The answer comes from ...
Why the waltz? What gives with this senescent New Year’s tradition of still waltzing 200 years since the birth of the dance’s greatest maker, Johann Strauss II? One simple answer is that this ...
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200 years of Johann Strauss: Vienna's first pop star
His waltzes were a hit from Russia to the US — and female fans swooned over him. And yet, there was also a darker side to the superstar Johann Strauss, who is being celebrated in a series of ...
As a young boy in the Netherlands, Rieu would watch as his father conducted the Maastricht Symphony Orchestra. And it impressed the budding violinist how the audience reaction shifted every time his ...
Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" has, for many people, been synonymous with space travel since it was used in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi classic "2001: A Space Odyssey". But ...
The Waltz King is coming to Boston. At least that’s the moniker the Dutch violinist and conductor André Rieu used in the late-1980s when he began touring Europe and, a decade later, North America, ...
SOUTH BEND — The South Bend Symphony Orchestra presents “Alastair Presents: Waltzing with Strauss” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 22, at the Morris Performing Arts Center, 211 N. Michigan St. Under the ...
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