In a unique tribute, ESA transmitted the Blue Danube Waltz into deep space to celebrate its 50th anniversary, merging art and ...

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, ...

The recent performance, organized by Vienna Symphony Orchestra director Jan Nast, was aimed at correcting the composition's omission on the Voyager Golden Record, which included Bach's Brandenburg ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Viennese Opera Ball Logo Jean Shafiroff, Denise Rich, Silvia Frieser (Photo Credit: BFA / Jiraurd Key) Star Jones (Photo Credit: BFA / Jiraurd Key) Maribel Lieberman (Photo Credit: BFA / Jiraurd Key).

Officers in the U.S. Army then presented the Colors, adding a touch of patriotic flair to the proceedings, before an orchestral tribute to Strauss conducted by Rainer M. Sulzgruber and led by ...