Why the waltz? What gives with this senescent New Year’s tradition of still waltzing 200 years since the birth of the dance’s greatest maker, Johann Strauss II? One simple answer is that this ...

But he does not think it is one of Chopin's "best waltzes", or that it is "one of his worst waltzes" either. "There’s quite a bit of juvenilia which Chopin kept in a drawer and never intended to ...

with tiny notation and a conspicuous name. The piece was marked “Valse,” or waltz. And a name was written in cursive across the top: Chopin. “I thought, ‘What’s going on here?

These days, “The Last Waltz” is by consensus one of the best music films in the canon, neck and neck with “Stop Making Sense,” the Talking Heads concert film by Jonathan Demme. Many ...