Waltz for Non-Dancers - A Narrative Concert in Three-Four Time

The Unna City Library and the Lindenbrauerei Culture and Communication Centre present a narrative concert dedicated to the waltz.

How many waltz kings are there? Was the Blue Danube first sung or danced? Did you know that the Viennese waltz became socially acceptable thanks to a Spaniard - only to be banned at the Tsar's court a few years later? Around 1800, the authorities considered it subversive; nationalist-minded Germans of later times, by contrast, elevated it to the status of protected cultural heritage.

Martin Brödemann and Thomas Eicher create a musical waltz panorama with cultural-historical dimensions spanning the 18th to 21st centuries, from New York to London, Vienna, Paris and St. Petersburg, from serious music to entertainment. The programme features dance and concert waltzes by Schubert, Brahms, Chopin, Puccini, Shostakovich, Stolz, Strauss, Lehár and many others - masterpieces and beloved melodies from different styles and eras.