If you feel sorry for shop assistants forced from November onwards to listen to Christmas music, spare a thought for the citizens of Vienna. All year round, in restaurants, shops, and hotels, there is ...

It's a piece that musicians love to hate — the "Blue Danube Waltz" by Johann Strauss, Jr. It's flowing and palatable in a virtuosic piano encore by Stewart Goodyear. In concert at Spivey Hall in ...