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
Friday, 10. January 200318.30 o' clock Tokyo ⁄ Bunkamura Orchard Hall
Concert in Tokyo Twenty-second Japan tour
Martin Sieghart conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta «Waldmeister» (Woodruff) Johann Strauss I : Gitana-Galopp op. 108 Johann Strauss II : From the Mountains / Waltz op. 292 Josef Strauss : Moulinet Polka / Polka française op. 57 Josef Strauss : Chatterboxes: musical joke / Polka op. 245 Josef Strauss : Village Swallows from Austria / Waltz op. 164 Break Carl Michael Ziehrer : Viennese Girls / Waltz op. 388 Carl Michael Ziehrer : Release! / Quick polka op. 386 Johann Strauss II : Town and Country / Polka mazurka op. 322 Josef Strauss : On Holiday Travels! / Quick polka op. 133 Johann Strauss II : Roses from the South / Waltz op. 388 Johann Strauss II : Egyptian March op. 335 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
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