One city in Europe has had enough of the hoopla, and has declared itself a Mozart-Free Zone. Fred Child has that story, and we have some non-Mozart Austrian music that might make you wish for more ...

Walt Groller — known locally for leading polkas and waltzes at Musikfest –will be honored Jan. 25 by the Austrian government for his work enhancing that country’s cultural life. Groller, 58, said ...

If this is a polka party, there must be beer, right? . . . Beer Barrel Polka. Roll Out the Barrel. Not quite. Walt Groller, Lehigh Valley’s polka master, accepted one of Austria’s highest civilian ...

Austrian duo Attwenger has been chivvying Alpine music for two decades and now, once and for all, is making a clean sweep of cheesy Alps clichés à la Saturday evening folk music shows. Is it Alps ...

Johann Strauss Ensemble, one of Austria’s most acclaimed classical orchestras, will embark on a new tour in Romania in ...

The waltz was based on the Ländler, a folk dance scorned by upper class Austrians. Born on the outskirts of Vienna in 1825, Johann Strauss II composed over 500 waltzes, polkas and other kinds of dance ...

Vienna (AP) - If one Austrian's quirky idea catches on, wine tastings could soon sound like this: Is that some Mozart in my glass? A hint of Haydn, maybe? Convinced that music is a key ingredient for ...

ProMusica Chamber Orchestra kicked off its Summer Music Series on Thursday night, this time at the Topiary Park Downtown. As in the past, each performance in the three-concert series has a different ...

GLOBAL KRYNER is the band that created a Eurovision Song Contest storm in 2005 which caused their country to withdraw from the competition for a year. In 2005, after performing their song, Y Asi, ...