Another Evening I spent in listening to Strauss & his band in the Volksgarten. there was no dancing, and only a promenade. He performed all his newest pieces and was of course most enchanting. His hair & eyes are very black and his face in parts deeply wrinkled from the movement of the muscles caused when he is executing some part of his pieces[.] at other times he is looking carelessly around nodding to acquaintances that he recognizes in the company, and apparently not attending to his music at all but his bow is always at work, and "discourses most excellent music."-----[84]
