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For 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 ...
It was a night of tribute to the British rock band Queen on Dancing With the Stars on Monday night (Sept. 1). Jimmie Allen was back for another round to prove to fans and judges he is there to stay.
In the early 19th Century, Vienna, imperial city of the Habsburgs, was about the size of Dayton, Ohio. For a little city, it had big appetites. In an average year its 200,000 citizens ate 12,967 ...
For 2,000 years, Jewish music has been a hybrid compounded of elements picked up from our neighbors. Salamone Rossi created Italian Baroque settings of Hebrew texts. Chasidic niggunim drew on Viennese ...
The waltz was based on the Ländler, a folk dance scorned by upper class Austrians. Born on the outskirts of Vienna in 1825, Johann Strauss II composed over 500 waltzes, polkas and other kinds of dance ...
Skai Jackson brought magic to the Dancing With the Stars semifinals on Nov. 16 with a moving Viennese waltz. The 18-year-old actress and her partner Alan Bersten glided across the dance floor during ...