LET’S DANCE!

From Bach to John Williams: symphonic dance music

What do the gloomy basement bar Cantina on the desert planet Tatooine and the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein have in common? Dance music was played in both places, and the audience did not stay seated for long, whether they were monarchs, peasants, aliens or teenagers. Different times, different dances, but always with music. How else would dancing work? Not all dance music is good music, as we all know! But this Young Concert proves how rousing, stylish, spirited and imaginative really good dance music can be. Whether it's a courtly Baroque minuet, a Strauss waltz from Vienna or dance interludes from opera or film, the music pulsates and drives you to move to its rhythm.