June 16 - Willi Boskovsky (The Musical Birthday Series)

Willi Boskovsky (16 June 1909 – 21 April 1991) was a violinist and conductor best known for conducting and recording the light Viennese repertoire.

Waltz Time

On New Year’s Eve Willi Boskovsky

Would never play Brahms or Tchaikovsky.

Instead, he played Strauss and his family,

With schmalz, and I fear, a bit hammily.

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