3.8.10

100 Songs for 100 Moods

If you're feeling classic...

On the Beautiful Blue Danube by Johann Strauss

Sidenote: This piece was one of my grandpa's (my piano teacher) favorites. I learned the entire sixteen page piano version as a kid, but it wasn't ever quite as lovely as a full orchestra. If I could spring for one expensive, luxurious, ridiculous thing at my wedding, it would be to hire an entire orchestra to play this as my first dance--all ten minutes.

There's nothing pretty to look at here, but just listen and picture a gorgeous outdoor dance, white dresses, men in tuxedos with tails and top hats, pearl earrings, moonlight peeping through trees...

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