THE GERSHOM PARKINGTON QUINTET
As conductor of the Court Balls at Vienna, himsolf a true Viennese of the old school, Johann Strauss the younger has loft in his immortal dance music a picture of the life and laughter of that gay city much more vivid, and no doubt more true, than history will ever show us.
Die Fledermaus, produced in 1874, was, like every one of his little operas, played and sung all over the world a generation ago. In this country it was given the name Nightbirds. Full of sparkling gaiety, instinct with all the spirit of carefree youth, it is just such music as one looks for from the hand which gave us The Blue Danube.