Life and Music The young Strauss had started composing and directing ... Strauss's genius lay in the way he took the waltz form his father and Josef Lanner had developed, and gave it a symphonic ...

For a time, Seattle was the great American music scene — and our collective ... discussed Martin Scorsese's 1978 picture "The Last Waltz" as the ultimate Thanksgiving film.

NEW YORK (AP) — The brooding waltz was carefully composed ... like this highlights the fact that classical music is very much a living art form.” The Chopin reveal comes after the Leipzig ...

VIENNA, Austria — Even 200 years after the birth of Austria's world-famous "waltz king" Johann Strauss II -- widely revered like a modern-day pop star during his lifetime -- his music has lost ...

Can you see the conductor move his baton, down and up – try counting 1,2,1,2,1,2 in time with the music. You could try marching to the beat. Now listen to the Waltz of the Flowers at the ...