...bomb. My mother talks about a ballet we saw the night before, "Vienna Waltzes" choreographed by George Balanchine in 1977 to a series of waltzes by Franz Lehar and the Strausses. Five waltzes, played by ...is not as she remembers it. It seems she is confusing it with a similar ballroom ballet by Balanchine, La Valse. In that one, Death crashes the ball and carries off one of the guests. To ...