Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-29
THE WALTZ KINGS PLANS.
HE Is Bevfsfng a Novel Dance "a
Supersede the waltz.

supersede the waltz.
VIENNA, January IL interviewe
Johann Strauss today at his handsom
MOTEL In the aristocratic quarter of VIE
oen. His study is spacious and mag
nlhcent room, filed with artistic an,
musical souvenirs requiring volumes t.
describe. He was standing on raise,
dals, with an American piano on hi
right, and in front of him was that mas
terpiece of coloring, "Terpsichore in Re
pose" by Hans Makart.
Inc valse king received me warmly
am glad to sec you," he said. "Fol
more than year l have observed les
waltzlng than formerly. This holds
good in France, America and England
as well as for Austria, if I am we'll in
| formed.
Il notice that the quadrille becomes
more popular because the valse is fatig
ulng and heating, and the quadrille il
neither, and people OF certain age car
participate in it. To vslse ona needs
great space. Where eight couple can
Valss comfortably, forty can dance the
quadrilie.
81 hope the young people who valse
to nay music will not be angry with me
for my proposed innovations and re-.
forms. IL is for their convenience and
pleasure that / make these changes. Die
junge Leute care, of course, less for the
dance than for the chance to causer
which it gives them when mamma is far
out of hearing.
with the present valse these causer.
aes, owing to the velocity of the move
ment and the necessity of avoiding col.
llsions, are often far from satisfactory
How many young men have remained
lonely bachelors their whole life long be-
cause, just as the psychological moment
presented itself, they missed it for want
of breath Horrible to think of it 7"
said the valse king with a smile.
''You will be surprised to learn that
though the Strauss family have for three
generations written valse music they
have never danced pas. / myself, if
brought ON the Tansboden, would cut a
shocking figure"
"And now for the valse music of the
future ?"
"To begin with, pray reassure the pub
lie, which has, hear, already COM
menced to accuse me OF wishing to
plagiarize their so-called valse minuet
reassure them among the things English
which I admire is not to be found their
idea of dance music.
II have not settled fully myself upon
a new dance. I have never thought for
a moment to completely abandon the
valse. l wish to attempt a transforma-
ton, and will divide my next work into
two distinct and separate measures.
"The first measure will remain one of
troisquatre, but of andantano movement.
With this one can firt at will, and with
The second measure will
have the habitual movement of the
valse.
"My new valse is not on paper. 1t is
in the air. 1t is simply an experiment 1
wish to make. 1 do not wish to play the
reformer. Then we will return to our
first love, the hustling, breathless valse
of yore. 1t all resolves itself into q ques-
ton of length of breath"
"And when do you propose launching
the new step?"
, 81 might as we'll tell the Herald that I
am in clandestine correspondence with
maitre de ballet. From this collaboration
a result will follow, and | shall interpo-
late my new dance in my new and only
grand opera, upon which l have been
working for nearly two years. The opera
will be called The C0ualier Passmann
The scene is laid in Hungary. 1t will be
produced next autumn st the Grand
opera house. York Herald.