This isn’t just a tribute to a beloved classical piece; it’s a corrective mission and a symbol of Europe’s artistic and ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with John Seabrook about his book The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, which ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) beamed Strauss’s The Blue Danube into deep space as a musical message to aliens.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has sent a famous piece of classical music deep into space "for aliens" in a symbolic gesture to mark its 50th anniversary. Johann Strauss II’s The Blue Danube waltz, ...

A performance of Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's The Blue Danube was beamed into space for an unusual audience over the ...

Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" has, for many people, been synonymous with space travel since it was ...

Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz has finally made it into space, nearly a half-century after missing a ride on NASA's Voyagers ...

Among those skipped was Johann Strauss II, whose “Blue Danube” graced Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi opus “2001: A Space Odyssey.” The tourist board in Vienna, where Strauss was born on ...

Space cadet Holst returns with his Planets suite, as does ‘Waltz King’ Johann Strauss II, gliding down the beautiful blue Danube. Feel the beat with anniversary composer Ravel’s Boléro ...