Word: waltz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...century ago quadrilles and cotillions went out of vogue and every café orchestra in Vienna played its music in three-four time because a nervous little man named Johann Strauss had started writing irresistible waltz tunes. He conducted his own compositions while he fiddled bewitchingly at the head of his band. If Johann Strauss fathered the Viennese waltz, his son Johann II (Blue Danube), who was also an expert violinist-conductor, reared it to an historic state of world-wide popularity...
...lethargic British manner, Evensong is chiefly notable for the fact that slim, blonde, pretty Evelyn Laye manages to look bitterly old, awkwardly massive in its final sequences. Good shot: the café scene from La Bohême, in which Spanish Soprano Supervia ably sings Musetta's Waltz...
Dancing classes to suit four and not more than ten persons. Learn the graceful Waltz and the swift Schottische in four lessons. (advt...
...Great Waltz (by Moss Hart; Max Gordon, producer) is a musical biography of Johann Strauss -("The Blue Danube'') and his able father. The plot is laid in the Habsburgs' Vienna of 1844, the year the young Strauss, stepping out of the shadow of his father's contemporary fame, made his name overnight leading the orchestra 'in his own waltzes at Dommaver's Casino in the fashionable suburb of Heitzing. Until the father's death five years later, the two Johann Strausses were bitter rivals for the title of Waltz King...
Using Strauss music throughout, The Great Waltz dramatizes the son's ambition and despair before the great night at Dommayer's, his suspicions of his father's jealousy, his waverings between music and marriage, and ends at Dommayer's with the father proudly waltzing to his son's and successor's music. The plot is intelligent, simple and reasonably true to history. The music has been spared the usual interpolations and "improvements." A chorus of 100. a ballet of 40, an orchestra of 54 supply background for the theme...