If a measure of a composer's music is its longevity, Johann Strauss, Jr's., light music in the nineteenth century has survived time and fashion so triumphantly that it legitimately can be called immortal. The waltz and the Viennese operetta are two examples of this "light" music.

A waltz is "a dance in moderate triple time which originated around 1800 and which not only has retained its popularity to the present day, but has also, time and again, inspired the imagination of composers." --Harvard Dictionary of Music

The 30 piece New York Strauss Orchestra brings you the dance music of "The Waltz King," plus complimentary compositions of Gershwin, Porter, Bernstein, and Rodgers & Hammerstein.

Conductor Ira Lieberman, BA, MA, PhD (musicology) from Columbia University, is currently violinist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and the New York Pops. He has been the conductor at the The tre de la Monnaie in Brussels and musical director and conductor for the Lyric Opera of Long Island.

He is composer of the musical score for Up Your Stars. His pieces for strings, The Space-Age String Orchestra is published by Alfred Publications. A second volume has been finished as well as several pieces for 12 brass. He has been chief music critic for several US papers and is now writing liner notes for Sony Classical.

Vocalist Linda Seay has had a career with two convergent elements, as opera singer and as educator. She has performed the roles of Lucia, Rosina (Barber of Seville), Olympia (Tales of Hoffmann), Queen of the Night and Pamina (Magic Flute), with the S‹o Carlo Opera of Lisbon, Portugal. She has also had numerous performances with orchestras in the US and Europe, including a Viennese night with the Providence, RI Symphony. She has toured Hawaii, Taiwan and Hong Kong with the American Arts Quartet. She has been a featured performer at the Village Gate in NYC.

Ms. Seay holds a BA in music from SUNY Stony Brook. She was coordinator of vocal performance at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is now, in addition to her concert and opera performances, a consultant in vocal chamber music to universities and conservatories in the US and Europe.

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