not apt to have any clue how our polka is connected to it
Don't expect him to smile -- polka-writing is serious business!
Hey, everyone, it's polka time! (But then, isn't it always?)
Vienna Philharmonic, Willi Boskovsky, cond. Decca, recorded in the 1960s-70s
London Symphony Orchestra, Stanley Black, cond. Decca Phase-4, recorded in the 1960s
BBC Symphony Orchestra, John Pritchard, cond. BBC Classics, recorded live at "Viennese Night at the Proms," Royal Albert Hall, Aug. 12, 1972
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Guth, cond. RPO-Intersound, recorded May 1994
by Ken
Mind you, I'm not saying there's a simple, direct connection between our polka and this year's Vienna New Year's Concert. Some of you no doubt recognized it immediately, and some of you may be wringing your hands, saying, "I know that damn polka, which damn one is it?" And some of you may be hearing it for the first time -- I hope you enjoyed it.
If you click through to the continuation of this post tease, it will:
(a) not only clear up the tiny bit of confusion surrounding the identity of our famous polka, but --
(b) provide a more direct link to the 2021 Vienna New Year's Concert -- though as it says above, even if you watched the PBS telecast this is most unlikely to help you at all in establishing the link.
UPDATE: (c) not that it was planned, but we've wound up with a virtual tribute to our polka master, whom we'll regreet in a moment.
DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE OLD SAYING "ONE GOOD POLKA
DESERVES ANOTHER"? SAY HELLO TO OUR POLKA MASTER!
