Word: waltzed
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...kept a stiff upper lip, concentrated on making her Johann II a better man than his father. So while Johann I gadded about, Johann II composed and practiced the organ in church. His teachers, who expected him to write Masses and oratorios, were scandalized to find him playing a waltz on the organ. "It had been intended for a fugue," he explained, "but it had somehow slipped...
...Johann himself did not slip, was soon turning out waltzes to beat the band. At the peak of his career he visited the U. S., conducted one gigantic concert with a chorus of 20,000 and 100 assistant conductors, was so frightened by the experience that he scurried back to Vienna for good. Seventeen years later, in 1889, a new popular musical movement had begun to sweep Johann and his waltzes into history. It came from the U. S. and it was in 4/4, not ¾, time. The Waltz Kings were succeeded by a March King: John Philip Sousa...
...Strauss: Album of Rediscovered Music (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, Howard Barlow conducting; Columbia: 6 sides). Poking about the collection of Straussiana that the late Railroad Tycoon Paul Lowenberg left to the Library of Congress (TIME, Aug. 7), Columbia researchers last spring dug up five lost dances by Vienna's Waltz King. Well uncorked by Conductor Barlow, they are up to Strauss's champagne standard...
...heart by singing La-calle's Amapola, is soon a popular hit below stairs, where the servants pool their savings to buy her a party dress and silver slippers so that she can go to the great ball. There unknown Connie captures the crowd by caroling a Strauss waltz. Her handsome, horsy young host (Robert Stack) canters over and, while cinemaddicts hold their breath, gives Deanna Durbin her first kiss, which had to be shot twelve times before it was considered impeccable enough to meet the exacting standards of Durbin fans...
...sirs huffed that U. S. jazz and crooners had sapped the grand traditions of martial music. Said they: "The whole difference [between 1914 and now] is that then we called men 'lads' and now we call lads 'men.' . . . Little Sir Echo is in waltz time, and no army ever waltzed its way to victory...