(From Birmingham)
PATTISON'S SALON ORCHESTRA Directed by NORRIS STANLEY
Relayed from the Cafe Restaurant, Corporation
Street
BORN at Strasburg in 1837, Emil Waldteufel studied Pianoforte at the Paris Conservatoire, and was for a time Pianist to the Empress Eugenie. Besides being a player of the pianoforte he was engaged for some time in the manufacture of the instrument, an unusual combination of experiences. His first waltzes were published at his own expense, but they achieved so immediate and pronounced a success that he gave himself up to the composition of dance tunes, eventually leaving hundreds of these, of which the greater number are waltzes. Their popularity has never waned, nor does it seem likely to.