The 2026 Stanford Viennese Ball on Feb. 27 spanned three dance floors, dozens of performers and nearly five decades of tradition.
After fleeing Vienna, he was a music critic and teacher before returning to composing in the 1980s. His memories of Nazi barbarism inspired his music. By Robert D. McFadden Walter Arlen, a Viennese ...
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 ...
Before fleeing Hitler and the Nazis, Richard Stöhr (1874-1967) was a prominent composer in Vienna where he taught for 35 years at the Vienna Conservatory. Arriving in the United States in 1939, he ...
There are, of course, some Viennese who dislike opera—just as there are some who find Sachertorte unappetizing, the waltz old-fashioned and the Danube dismally dirty. But they belong to a special ...
Take a trip to 18th Century Vienna with the University of Massachusetts Orchestra, directed by Lanfranco Marcelletti, Jr. The first orchestra concert of the school year will play this Wednesday at 8 p ...
The Friends of Vienna, Buffalo's long-running grassroots classical concert series, is starting its new season at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 17 with a recital of Viennese music. Pianist Stephen Manes, formerly ...