with Marc Courtade, Artistic Director at Tilles Center
Date: Thursday, December 3
Time: 2:00 P.M.
During the 18th and 19th Centuries, Vienna was the musical and cultural capital of the world, the home of many famous artists and composers, including Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert and Mahler. Excerpts from many of these masters will be discussed, but it was Johann Strauss, the Younger, called “The Waltz King,” who brought the effervescent Viennese spirit to its zenith with his irrepressible operetta Die Fledermaus, along with his memorable waltzes, polkas, marches. Other Viennese musicians carried on this tradition—Franz Lehr with his vivacious The Merry Widow and Rudolph Friml with his romantic Rose Marie. And so, we offer a musical toast to old Vienna and the graceful elegance it gave the world.