1. Unquiet flows the Danube.
- Author
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Shapiro, Mark
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RIVERS ,CONCERTS - Abstract
This article focuses on the music release "Blue Danube Waltz," by Johann Strauss. It evoked the grace of the Danube River with delicate crescendos of strings and brass. Received as a sensation when performed in the concert halls of Europe, the piece contributed to a practically mystical reverence for that greatest of European rivers, which has given life to civilizations and dispensed agricultural nourishment and romance along its route. The Danube, in Strauss's day, ran like a sinuous muscle across 1,700 miles of Central Europe. Today, however, the Danube's waters are among the most harnessed of any river on the planet, straddled by more than thirty dams as the river traverses nine frontiers from its headwaters in Germany's Black Forest to its mouth in the Black Sea.
- Published
- 1997