The formal opening of the Suez Canal -- linking Port Said, on the Mediterranean Sea, and the Egyptian port of Suez, on the Red Sea -- was celebrated on 16 November 1869 by an inaugural ceremony at Port Said. On the following day sixty-eight vessels of various nationalities began the passage, arriving at Suez four days later. The opening of this artificial waterway created considerable interest around the world, and in Vienna gave rise to Anton Bittner's burlesque, Nach Ägypten (Into Egypt), presented at the Theater an der Wien on 26 December that year. It was here as a processional march for Egyptian warriors before the final scene, that the Viennese public first became acquainted with the sinuous themes of Johann Strauss's Ägyptischer Marsch. The composer, ever mindful of current affairs, had in fact written the piece for his 1869 summer concert season in Pavlovsk -- shared that year with his brother Josef -- and had conducted its première at the Vauxhall Pavilion there on 6 July (= 24 June, Russian calendar) at a benefit concert for the two brothers.
Johann Strauss II. : Egyptian March op. 335 © by WJSO-Archive
Thursday, 28. January 199318.30 o' clock Kimitsu ⁄ Kimitsu Shimin Bunka Hall
Concert in Kimitsu Twelfth Japan tour
Alfred Eschwé conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Ouverture to «Die Fledermaus» Johann Strauss II : From the Stock Exchange / Polka française op. 337 Johann Strauss II : Eljen A Magyar! « Long Live the Magyar!» / Quick polka op. 332 Johann Strauss II : Where the Lemon Trees Blossom / Waltz op. 364 Josef Strauss : From Afar / Polka mazurka op. 270 Johann Strauss II : Egyptian March op. 335 Johann Strauss II : Emperor Waltz op. 437 Break Johann Strauss II : Spanish March op. 433 Johann Strauss II : Be embraced, ye millions! / Waltz op. 443 Johann Strauss II : Peasants Polka / Polka française op. 276 Johann Strauss II : Csárdás from the opera «Knight Pásmán» op. 441 Johann Strauss II : New Pizzicato Polka, from the Operetta «Fürstin Ninetta» op. 449 Johann Strauss II : Excursion Train / Quick polka op. 281 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
Kimitsu ⁄ Kimitsu Shimin Bunka Hall 622 Mino 〒299-1172 Kimitsu Chiba Japan Website Show Map
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