Two works by Hector Berlioz get the spotlight in the orchestra’s latest program, along with music by Debussy, Richard Strauss ...

Bicentenary of the birth of the great Johann Strauss, an incredibly successful composer, best known for his Viennese waltzes and operettas which earned him the undisputed title of the Waltz King and ...

Johann Strauss Jr. made his first ISO “Emperor Waltzes” appearance at the Hilbert Circle Theatre as a prelude to the ...

BBC Radio 3's Composer Of The Week is a guide to composers and their music. The podcast is compiled from the week's programmes and published on Friday, it is only available in the UK.

Outside of the Strauss family, the concert will feature the music of two other composers. We will hear a march by Austrian composer Josef Hellmesberger from his opera Das Veilchenmädchen (The Violet ...

EVERY New Year’s Day orchestras around the world celebrate the music of glittering Imperial Vienna -the polkas, the marches, the gallops and most of all the waltzes. This year the tradition has ...

SAN FRANCISCO—A year ago, Daniel Lurie could move anonymously through the streets of his home city. But on a recent walking tour here, the newly elected mayor was greeted as a celebrity ...

Josef Strauss, the Waltz King's younger brother ... The multi-talented engineer, composer, conductor, singer, painter, poet, and dramatist somehow found the time to author two textbooks on ...

December 27, 2024; Washington, DC — The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra will perform its iconic New Year's Day concert from the legendary Musikverein in Vienna on January 1, 2025, conducted by ...

Riccardo Muti (83), doyen of the international conducting elite and favorite of the Viennese, conducts the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concert in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein for ...