Playing Viennese waltzes on or around New Year’s Eve is a curious custom — the music was not written with that event in mind — but has become a reliable seller that most orchestras embrace. So it was ...

For classical music lovers, New Year's Day action isn't on a football field -- it's "On the Beautiful Blue Danube." Through Sunday, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra is perpetuating a tradition that ...

Franz Lehar, composer of Adolf Hitler’s favorite operetta, The Merry Widow, still lives in Vienna. His friends say he cannot get out. He has paid out millions of marks to safeguard his wife, a ...

On a busy pedestrian street in the heart of Vienna, a musician has set up his “stage” and is playing a violin. He stands near a souvenir shop named Mostly Mozart. Further up the street, flyers are ...

His waltzes were a hit from Russia to the US — and female fans swooned over him. And yet, there was also a darker side to the superstar Johann Strauss, who is being celebrated in a series of ...

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 ...