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2 unusual facts about Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz


Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz

Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz was along with Monika Olejnik, an influential journalist, a murder target of Brunon K., who was arrested in November 2012 in connection with preparation of terrorist attack on Sejm.

Warsaw Ghetto boundary markers

The markers were built between April and November 2008 and were inaugurated on 19 November 2008 by the mayor of Warsaw Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz.


Abrams, Wisconsin

Pee Wee King, pioneer in the country and western music industry; wrote "Tennessee Waltz" and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1974

Caribbean Blue

The song follows a waltz time signature, and mentions the Anemoi (Ancient Greek wind gods): Boreas, Afer Ventus (Africus), Eurus, and Zephyrus.

Carl Gottlieb Reissiger

A famous piece known as Weber's Last Waltz was actually written by Reißiger (one of his opus 26 Danses brillantes) and is mentioned in Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) as one of Roderick Usher's favorite pieces of music; it is also the title of a 1912 film.

Contra body movement

Contra body movement (CBM) is a term used in ballroom dances, such as Waltz, Foxtrot, Tango, Quickstep.

Der letzte Walzer

Der letzte Walzer (The Last Waltz) is a Viennese operetta in three acts, with music by Oscar Straus, to a libretto by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald.

Emanuel Vigeland

The amazing acoustics of the mausoleum can be heard in a recording by American folk artist Jay Brannan, who was allowed a private visit during which he was videotaped singing his composition, Death Waltz.

Fred Mustard Stewart

His most popular books were The Mephisto Waltz (1969), adapted for a 1971 film starring Alan Alda; Six Weeks (1976), made into a 1982 film starring Mary Tyler Moore; Century, a New York Times best-seller in 1981; and Ellis Island (1983), which became a CBS mini-series in 1984.

Future Pigeon

Future Pigeon also performed a dub version of Elliott Smith's "Waltz No. 2 (XO)" for the short film/documentary Strange Parallel.

Glyn Maxwell

Other plays include Wolfpit, about two green children said to have appeared in Suffolk in the 12th century (Edinburgh 1996; New York 2006), The Forever Waltz, a reworking of the Orpheus-Eurydice story (New York 2005; Edinburgh 2005), and The Only Girl in the World, a play about Mary Kelly, the last victim of Jack the Ripper (London 2001).

Herzenslust

It was performed along with several of Strauss' other early compositions, such as the waltzes Sinngedichte and Gunstwerber, and the Debut-Quadrille.

I Can't Tell a Waltz from a Tango

"I Can't Tell a Waltz from a Tango" is a popular song written by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning and published in 1954.

Ice dancing

The 2010 World Championships were the last event to include a CD (the Golden Waltz), and Italians Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali were the last dance team to perform one in competition.

Johann Strauss I

Strauss also adapted various popular melodies of his day into his works so as to ensure a wider audience, as evidenced in the incorporation of the Oberon overture into his early waltz, "Wiener Carneval", Op. 3, and also the French national anthem "La Marseillaise" into his "Paris-Walzer", Op. 101.

Kaiser-Walzer

The waltz was originally titled Hand in Hand and was intended as a toast made in August of that year by Austrian emperor Franz Josef on the occasion of his visit to the German Kaiser Wilhelm II where it was symbolic as a 'toast of friendship' extended by Austria to Germany.

Leigh Marble

That same month, Marble recorded the track “Inebriate Waltz” for a compilation to benefit Portland's Lone Fir Cemetery.

Leo Sirota

His playing is characterised by a luminous tone and unfussy, almost fastidious interpretations, underpinned by an astonishing technique - his rendition of Rosenthal's arrangement of Chopin's minute waltz with the right hand in thirds was said to have astounded Arthur Rubinstein.

Luis Aguirre Pinto

Four years later he began his first continental tour with Angela Ferrari, European tango performer, and in Lima, composed one of his first popular songs, the waltz Reminiscencia.

Marek Weber

Billed as the "Radio Waltz King", he became a fixture of the NBC Red Network, with a star billing on the Carnation Condensed Milk program and frequent guest appearances on other shows.

Mephisto Walz

The name Mephisto Waltz was derived from the 4 Mephisto Waltzes by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, and also partly provoked by the 4th track of Atrocities - "The Danzig Waltz".

Nidelva

According to tradition, Hoddø wrote the waltz about the Nidelva River one night in late April 1940 while he was standing at Gamle Bybro in Trondheim.

Nikita Koshkin

Koshkin's most celebrated guitar work is "Usher-Waltz." a piece inspired by the Edgar Allan Poe story The Fall of the House of Usher, in which Poe wrote, "I listened, as if in a dream, to the wild improvisations of his speaking guitar." Koshkin's piece was written for the famed guitarist Vladislav Blaha.

Oktawia Kawęcka

Apart from her own songs, the album includes a jazz waltz inspired by an Etude of Frédéric Chopin, works by Stanislaw Moniuszko, worldwide renowned jazz musician Michal Urbaniak, Jerzy Wasowski, Jeremi Przybora.

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man

Composer Martin Wesley-Smith (b. 1945) used the tune in his composition "White Knight Waltz".

Przemysław Lechowski

The Longest Birthday won two S3KTOR awards from President of Warsaw: Grand Prix and award for the best NGO’s cultural event in the capital city of Warsaw in 2010.

Pummerin

The Pummerin sounds on only a few special occasions such as high Catholic holidays such as Easter, Whitsunday, Feast of Corpus Christi (Pentacost), Christmas Eve, and St. Stephen's Day (High Patron of the Church - Dec 26th); state funerals, and at the beginning of the New Year, when it is broadcast on national television, ORF, followed by The Blue Danube Waltz.

Quadrille Ball

After the Quadrille dance presentation, any alumni present are invited up for an honorary alumni waltz (improvisational), and then there is social dancing the rest of the night to a live orchestra that plays ballroom dance music (waltz, tango, foxtrot, swing, Latin, etc.

Quick Service

Getting his employer, that tough-egg, Steptoe, to waltz to his tune is but a moment's work for Joss, who uses Howard's Achilles' heel of playing dice (and losing dearly) to turn the relationship Damon-and-Pythias-esque.

Rathausball-Tänze

The first is not so consequential as it marked Strauss incorporation of many snatches of his famous The Blue Danube waltz op. 314 resulting in the entire Coda (tail-piece) being dominated with anticipation of the waltz proper as is Strauss incorporation of Haydn's Austrian hymn Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser into various sections of the Coda.

Replaceable You

In a blog written by Ledesma, it was revealed prior to the airing of the episode that it would contain the use of the waltz "Tales from the Vienna Woods" by Johann Strauss II as well as a musical cue similar to the style of the main theme from the film Catch Me If You Can.

Rich Waltz

Additionally, Waltz has called three no-hitters including Aníbal Sánchez's no-hitter in September 2006 and Roy Halladay's perfect game on May 29, 2010.

Rosen aus dem Süden

Rosen aus dem Süden (Roses From the South), Op. 388, is a waltz medley composed by Johann Strauss II in 1880 with its themes drawn from the operetta Das Spitzentuch der Königin (The Queen's Lace Handkerchief) inspired by a novel by Heinrich Bohrmann-Riegen.

Siegfried Translateur

Author of about 200 works, Translateur's most famous piece remains the Wiener Praterleben waltz, opus 12, which he wrote at the age of seventeen.

The Autumn Waltz

"The Autumn Waltz" is a popular song with music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Bob Hilliard, published in 1956.

Theodora Morse

Popular good-night waltz Three O'Clock in the Morning was written to music written by Julian Robledo.

Till I Waltz Again with You

"Till I Waltz Again with You" is a popular song written by Sid Prosen and published in 1952.

Time Further Out

The tracks are ordered by the number of beats per bar, starting with "It's a Raggy Waltz" and "Bluette" in 3/4; "Charles Matthew Hallelujah", a tribute to his newborn son, in 4/4; "Far More Blue" and "Far More Drums" in 5/4; "Maori Blues" in 6/4; "Unsquare Dance" in 7/4; "Bru's Boogie Woogie" in 8/8; and concluding with "Blue Shadows in the Street" in 9/8.

Verne Meisner

When Meisner's National Guard unit was called up in 1962, the band did not release a record until it came out with the LP album "A Polka and Waltz Holiday," on Cuca Records.

Vicente Martín y Soler

He is credited with introducing, in Una cosa rara, the waltz to Vienna; and a melody from the same work is quoted by Mozart in the banquet scene in Act 2 of Don Giovanni (1787).

Walter B. Rogers

Their most successful recordings included "The Merry Widow Waltz" (from The Merry Widow, performed by the Victor Orchestra, 1907), "The Glow-Worm" (from Paul Lincke's operetta Lysistrata, performed by the Victor Orchestra, 1908), and "The Yama Yama Man" (from The Three Twins, performed by Ada Jones and the Victor Light Opera Co., 1909).

Waltz of Love

Waltz of Love (German:Liebeswalzer) is a 1930 German musical film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Georg Alexander.

Waltz of the Stork

Waltz of the Stork is a semi-autobiographical play written and originally performed by Melvin Van Peebles.

Waylon's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2

"Looking for Suzanne", "America" and "Waltz Me to Heaven" are all previously unreleased Jennings recordings; the first of these made a reappearance on Jennings' Sweet Mother Texas (1986).

White Shoes

A rockish version of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend", a country remake of the Donna Summer hit "On the Radio", and a version of Sandy Denny's "Like an Old Fashioned Waltz" were all included.

Wiener Carneval

The waltz was intended as a contribution to the carnival of 1828 Johann Strauss appeared as leader of a group of musicians at the balls at the Kettenbrücke in Leopoldstadt.

Wo die Zitronen blühen

The waltz was composed during a tour of the composer in Italy where he travelled with the Langenbach Orchestra of Germany and performed the work at the Teatro Regio in Turin on 9 May 1874.

You Only Live Once

Man lebt nur einmal! (You Only Live Once!), a waltz by Johann Strauss II


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