Some folks might think Telarc's choice of title here, The Never Ending Waltz, is a concept chosen to advance a Romantic notion of waltz music, as titles as "Two Hearts in Three-Quarter Time" used to appeal back in the days when Reader's Digest was proliferating the world with its deluxe, LP box sets. Telarc, though, is smarter than that; they realize they might have better success naming it "The Never Ending Pasta Bowl," like at Olive Garden, than to attempt to sell the waltz on its own merits to today's decidedly anti ...
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Some folks might think Telarc's choice of title here, The Never Ending Waltz, is a concept chosen to advance a Romantic notion of waltz music, as titles as "Two Hearts in Three-Quarter Time" used to appeal back in the days when Reader's Digest was proliferating the world with its deluxe, LP box sets. Telarc, though, is smarter than that; they realize they might have better success naming it "The Never Ending Pasta Bowl," like at Olive Garden, than to attempt to sell the waltz on its own merits to today's decidedly anti-romantic generation. The Never Ending Waltz is a purposeful designation; this is Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra performing the traditional Strauss waltzes not in a concert format, but pulled together into strings of medleys. This is exactly how one would experience Strauss' (and other) waltzes at a ball in Vienna where the waltz is still danced in the traditional manner, and indeed how the Strausses themselves would have arranged them for such purpose. The recording...
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