The Viennese custom of naming waltzes after ball festivals and ball festivals after waltzes goes back to Lanner, Strauss I and their contemporaries. Strauss II elevated this practice to an art, for Lehár it became a welcome source of popularity and income. When Princess Pauline Metternich planned a "gold and silver" redoubt after a "white" and a "red-white" for carnival in 1902, she revived the old custom. She commissioned the young conductor of the "26er", Franz Lehár, to do it. On Thursday, January 27, 1902, the redoubt took place. According to tradition, the waltz was always played first as a concert piece, with an introduction and a coda. When the conducting composer had accepted the applause and the Archduke had completed the lap of honor with the Princess, the general dance began. It was different with the “Gold and Silver” redoubt. «Hardly the first theme sounded when the people started chattering, laughing and dancing. There was a few hand claps at the end - they asked for a repeat - and that was all». Nobody could have guessed that the defeat of the evening would become a worldwide success. Least of all the composer himself. But he created the symbolic and musical transition from the golden to the silver age of the operetta.
Tuesday, 08. January 201919.30 o' clock Taichung ⁄ National Theater
Concert in Taichung
Johannes Wildner conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Ouverture to «Die Fledermaus» Johann Strauss II : Thunder and Lightning / Quick polka op. 324 Josef Strauss : Music of the Spheres / Waltz op. 235 Johann Strauss II : Furioso Polka op. 260 Johann Strauss II : Voices of Spring / Waltz op. 410 Johann Strauss II : Chit-Chat Polka op. 214 Johann Strauss II : Emperor Waltz op. 437 Break Johann Strauss II : Light of Heart / Quick polka op. 319 Franz Lehár : Gold and Silver / Waltz op. 79 Josef Strauss : Without a Care! / Quick polka op. 271 Johann Strauss II : Tales from the Vienna Woods / Waltz op. 325 Johann Strauss II : Hunting / Quick polka op. 373 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314
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