Word: waltzed
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...with some music that was genuine for its own day, and hence is genuine now: Dvorak's Symphony No. 8 (formerly No. 4) in G major, Op. 88. Here Swoboda seemed to be a free man on home territory, and he was exciting to watch and hear. In the waltz of the third movement, he and the orchestra were all grace; in the final movement he shifted tempo and mood expertly. Here, safe in romanticism, the orchestra came alive...
That night 5,500 merry Republicans attended, at $12.50 a head, the inaugural ball in the Harrisburg Zembo Mosque, and Scranton himself was caught up in the enthusiasm of the occasion. He spun his wife around in a Viennese waltz and a polka, went a few fast fox trots with his 17-year-old daughter Susan, who took off her shoes in a display of considerable confidence. Later, Scranton performed a three-minute Charleston solo, causing a startled observer to exclaim, "Can you imagine what the Democrats will do with a picture of Scranton spread out in a Charleston position...
...been less practical had not tape-splicing techniques done away with the necessity of a perfect studio performance. Tape also made possible such stunts as Jascha Heifetz' singlehanded recording of the Bach D Minor Concerto for Two Violins and the famed recording of Patti Page singing the Tennessee Waltz over her own voice. But music lovers did not at first welcome prerecorded tape with open ears, despite its admitted advantages (virtually no surface noise or deterioration, plus fewer interruptions). It cost more than records, was harder to handle, and for a time was produced in a bewildering variety...
...most people, the mere mention of a Viennese operetta conjures up a waltz of post-Johann Strauss composers-Franz Lehar (The Merry Widow), Oskar Straus (The Chocolate Soldier), Emmerich Kalman (Countess Maritza). But beside their names belongs another: Robert Stolz. In his long career, Stolz has written almost as many operettas as the other three combined. Now 82. Stolz is the grand old man of operetta, the sole survivor of the golden age of popular Viennese music (1910-25). At Austria's open-air amphitheater on Lake Constance last week, Old Composer Stolz was still at work. Tall...
After 160 melodious minutes, the old man on the podium turned to acknowledge the gusty applause. The locale of Trauminsel may have been Mexico and the sets Utopian, but no one who had ever heard a Viennese waltz could mistake the theme-a simple case, as Stolz himself put it in the title of his most famous operetta, of Two Hearts in Three-Quarter Time...