Word: waltz
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...perfectly coordinated performance communicated all these effects. Each dance, and especially the wierd waltz of the third scene, displayed its particular character. The winds and violins played especially well, while all the strings stayed in tune and produced a rich but transparent tone. My only disappointment was that the music was done in concert rather than as a ballet...
Even the name Vienna sets up resonances that belong to the past: candlelight, slow waltz music, fiacres, lindentree parks, the Danube and the Prater -a capital jewel in the crown of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, doomed to obliteration by transitional winds. The old Vienna has its surviving spirits, none sturdier than Heimito von Doderer, at 70 Austria's foremost novelist. A courtly and playful Viennese, Von Doderer remembers with fondness the city as it was half a century ago. The Waterfalls of Slunj is his love song to that twilight time, the first of an intended four-volume epic...
...defector plunged on, unheeding -in fact, unhearing. For the escapee was a clanking, wheezing bulldozer. Slowly it staggered forward, weaving from side to side, as if in some drunken waltz...
Cambridge bred duo, Mitch Greenhill (guitar) and Jeff Gutcheon (piano), stood out as the most inventive and amusing of the new performers. Their performance of "The Sweet Wild Turkey Waltz" was a festival occasion...
...vast chagrin and surprise of South Viet Nam's militant Buddhists, the government of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky last week wound up its first year in office in an anniversary waltz of energy and authority. For Ky and his generals to be around at all represented no mean accomplishment-the longest stretch of governmental stability since Diem fell...