As dance scandals go, the recent season of "Dancing With the Stars," with its allegations of voter fraud related to Bristol Palin's rise to the final three, has nothing on the sordid history of the waltz.
'The social dance popular in the 18th and 19th centuries was decried as 'an obscene display confined to prostitutes and adulteresses." One magazine wag of the era wrote, 'We . . . can scarcely realize the horror which greeted the introduction of this wicked dance.'
Lucky for us, those opinions changed.
'In its day, the waltz was a scandal,' said Guido Mancusi, who will conduct the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 'Salute to Vienna,' a Viennese-style holiday event that twirls into Strathmore on Saturday and Baltimore's Meyerhoff Symphony Hall on Sunday."
--- from The Washington Post Weekend
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