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Tunes and Titles
The difference between the Viennese waltz and the polka is that the waltz has the catchy tunes and the polka has the catchy titles.
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From Paris to Vienna…
even elephants do it
When elephants dance, which isn’t very often, either they polka or they waltz.
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The Viennese waltz wasn’t just a dance, and it wasn’t just Viennese either. At the height of its popularity, and for some time after that, it was an industry with a world-wide market for its products.
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Strauss and Lanner
“Vienna without Strauss is like Austria without the Danube,” wrote Hector Berlioz on the death of Johann Strauss in 1849. But Vienna wasn’t without Strauss:
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A not so happy family
“The public attends a Strauss concert expecting to be put into a happy mood,” declared Johann Strauss to his brother Eduard.
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Dancing on the Danube
Vienna and Budapest have more than the Danube in common.
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Vienna Whirl
New Year celebrations and the music of Johann Strauss seem to be such natural and inseparable companions that the association must, surely, go back well into the composer’s lifetime.
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The family business
“Vienna without Strauss is like Austria without the Danube,” wrote Hector Berlioz on the death of Johann Strauss in 1849.
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Dancing on the Danube
Vienna and Budapest have more than the Danube in common.
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Tunes and Titles
The difference between the Viennese waltz and the Viennese polka is that the waltz has the catchy tunes and the polka has the catchy titles.
From Gerald Larner’s files: “cbso/halle intros”