At Strathmore, Baltimore Symphony goes waltzing in an interesting way

The Baltimore Symphony and its music director, Marin Alsop, celebrated the waltz at Strathmore on Sunday afternoon. In a curious programming twist, music from early-19th-century Vienna, where the waltz was essentially perfected by composers such as Lanner and the father and son Johann Strauss, was not heard. Instead there were two waltz extravaganzas by the French composer Maurice Ravel and a suite from the waltz-permeated opera "Der Rosenkavalier" by the Bavarian composer Richard Strauss, all c...