Writing to his brother, Eduard, on Saturday 2 April 1892, Johann Strauss remarked: "I have sketched a new pizzicato-polka for your concerts in Hamburg. It is this time made slightly more interesting, in accordance with current taste (without really being suited to a concert performance with regard to the musical content). It allows an affected manner of performance - the main thing in a pizzicato number. For where there is no 'singing-tone', a success can only lie, I must admit, in a coquettish performance - since neither piano nor forte offer sufficient variety in such an unusual piece ....." The polka was later inserted as the Act 3 entr'acte in Johann's operette Fürstin Ninetta (1893), where it seems to have been used for the children's ballet sequence. Text: Peter Kemp, 1978 The Johann Strauss Society of Great Britain
Johann Strauss II. : New Pizzicato Polka, from the Operetta «Fürstin Ninetta» op. 449 © by WJSO-Archive
Friday, 29. January 199319.00 o' clock Sagamihara ⁄ Green Hall Sagami Ono
Concert in Sagamihara 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
Sagamihara ⁄ Green Hall Sagami Ono Sagamiōno, 4 Chome−4−1 〒228-0803 Sagamihara Kanagawa Japan Website Show Map
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