Everybody Polka

By Anna Coogan

Posted March 5, 2013

Ether Game asks, can you name this tune? Here's a hint... it's not a waltz...

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This week, the Brain Trust is hosting a dance. Wear your polka dots and bring your dancing shoes!

Music Heard On This Episode

Stravinsky, Igor: Circus Polka (For a Young Elephant)

Michael Tilson Thomas, London Symphony Orchestra — Stravinsky in America (RCA, 1997)

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Stravinsky, Igor: Circus Polka (For a Young Elephant)

Michael Tilson Thomas, London Symphony Orchestra — Stravinsky in America (RCA, 1997)

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Van Heusen, Jimmy: Polka Dots and Moonbeams

Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra — The Essential Frank Sinatra with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (RCA, 2005)

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Weinberger, Jaromir: Schwanda the Bagpiper: Polka

Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra — Dvorak- Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" (RCA, 1995)

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Offenbach, Jacques: Gaite Parisienne: Polka and Galop

Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra — Offenbach: Gaite Parisienne, Five Overtures (MMG, 1986)

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Shostakovich, Dmitri: The Age of Gold: Polka

I Salonisti — Trans-Siberian Express (Polygram, 1990)

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Bach, Johann Sebastian: Orchestral Suites Nos. 1 and 4: Bourées

Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque — Bach: The Complete Orchestral Suites (Telarc, 2004)

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Strauss, Johann Jr.: Pizzicato-Polka

Willi Boskovsky, Vienna Philharmonic — New Year's Day Concert in Vienna (London, 1996)

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Foster, Stephen: Soirée Polka, The Village Bells

Beuchner, Sara Davis — The Complete Piano Works of Stephen Foster (Pro-Piano, 2002)

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Various: Polka Face

Weird Al Yankovic — Alpocalypse (Volcano, 2011)

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