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To help beat the summer heat, I think I will play some waltzes and other delightful things in the next month or so. The beloved "Blue Danube" is of course at the top of the list, and Strauss wrote many others. Here it is, as performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1961, with Eugene Ormandy conducting.
My mom used to pick up a record album from a thrift shop or discount store now and then, and though I never remember her playing any of them - maybe she played them when no one else was at home - they were exciting to discover as a lonely only child. And what little gay boy wouldn't be entranced by the lush music and the fairy-tale picture on the album?
I played and replayed it countless times over the years. When it had gotten rather scratchy in the mid-1970s, I searched the record stores until I found an 8-track version of the same, which I could play in my car while driving along the blue waters of the beautiful Gulf coast. Fond memories; I hope you fellas enjoy the inspiration of this masterpiece recording too.
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