It cost 3d and showed the Programme of Music by the Bournemouth Silver Band, including two marches, two waltzes and a paso doble.
But he just waltzes on through life, evading the haggish hands of women hoping to nail him down, possibly literally.
As well as issuing film soundtracks (including "Titanic"), it sells new recordings ranging from Yo-Yo Ma, its star cellist, playing Appalachian waltzes and tangos, to a recent release of chants by the Pope dubbed over new-agey tunes on a disc called "Abba Pater" (from the Aramaic, not the Swedish).Yet even among record companies the gloom is not universal.
"You don't get to do the fun stuff, which is contact flight doing Cuban eights and split Ss while you're listening to Strauss waltzes".Paul Markillie is a business correspondent for The Economist.
He wrote at least 70 songs, 11 waltzes, 12 other dance pieces, 11 suites, 14 humoresques, and 27 fantasies.
Underlying this stylistic multiplicity including parodies of folk song, waltzes, fanfares, marches, text painting (four symphonies include voices), chorales, borrowings from other composers as well as his own songs was a leaning toward cyclic structure, with themes or motives shared among movements, as in his song cycles and those of Schubert and Schumann.
For example, at La Scala in Milan, purists booed the waltzes, which they viewed as suitable only for dance music.
In 1868 69 he composed his Liebeslieder (Love Songs) waltzes, for vocal quartet and four-hand piano accompaniment a work sparkling with humour and incorporating graceful Viennese dance tunes.
Accompanying the street processions centred on three images of the saint are open trucks with orchestras playing waltzes and danzas; some people ride horses along the route.
The younger Johann Strauss was eventually persuaded to follow this trend by turning the Viennese craze for his waltzes, polkas, and other social dances to theatrical purpose.
He issued an invitation in 1819 to many composers to contribute variations on one of his own waltzes in order to form a "patriotic anthology" published by his firm.
