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Learning to Listen: The Waltz

Because we'll hear loads of Vienna's famous dance from its annual concert on New Year's Day, this week's Learning to Listen looks more closely at the waltz: what it is, who wrote them and why it was considered racy in 19th-century Austria.


Voices of Spring Waltz (Fruhlingsstimmen) 


Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra/Antal Dorati, cond. 


Cincinnati Pops Orchestra/Erich Kunzel, cond. 


Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique": 3rd movement


Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre/Valery Gergiev, cond. 


New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein, cond. 


Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra/Paavo Järvi, cond. 


Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Fritz Reiner, cond. 

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Longtime music host and performer Andrea Blain presents classical music programming including national specials, opera and other live broadcasts and holiday programs. She also is part of a team that works on content and scripting for ‘Rhapsody in Black’ and has voiced several episodes of YourClassical Storytime.


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Andrea Blain

Because we'll hear loads of Vienna's famous dance from its annual concert on New Year's Day, this week's Learning to Listen looks more closely at the waltz: what it is, who wrote them and why it was considered racy in 19th-century Austria.


Learning to Listen: The Waltz

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