The King of the Waltz’s 2025 Maastricht concert promises to be the cinema event of the year This August 30 th and 31 st, for ...

The "Blue Danube" broadcast is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ESA's creation, as well as 200 years since Strauss' birth. The waltz was notably absent when NASA launched 27 pieces of music ...

Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" has, for many people, been synonymous with space travel since it was used in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi film classic "2001: A Space Odyssey".

Johann Strauss II's "Blue Danube" is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the waltz king's birth. The classical piece will be beamed into the cosmos as it's performed by ...

Strauss recalled a poem by Karl Isidor Beck (1817-79). Each stanza ends with the line: ‘By the Danube, beautiful blue Danube’. It gave him the inspiration and the title for his new work – although the ...

The "Blue Danube" broadcast is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ESA's creation, as well as 200 years since Strauss' birth. The waltz was notably absent when NASA launched 27 pieces of music ...

Now "The Blue Danube" waltz with its whirling orbital rhythms will truly become the music of the cosmos when the European Space Agency broadcasts the lilting classical piece into deep space in ...

The Vienna Symphony Orchestra has broadcast Strauss II’s famous waltz ‘The Beautiful Blue Danube’ into space, in celebration of the composer’s 200th anniversary. Johann Strauss II’s most famous piece, ...

A performance of the masterpiece will be transmitted into space on Saturday. The waltz has been associated with space travel since its inclusion in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The European Space Agency will beam the famous 'Blue Danube' waltz into space. Johann Strauss II's popular orchestral piece "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" has been inextricably linked to space ...

Johann Strauss II's popular orchestral piece "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" has been inextricably linked to space since it was used in the 1968 classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The waltz played ...