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.
Thursday, 01. May 201411.00 o' clock Vienna ⁄ Musikverein ⁄ The Große Musikvereinssaal
Frühlingskonzert im Goldenen Saal
Johannes Wildner conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta «Waldmeister» (Woodruff) Johann Strauss II : We’re Not That Worried / Quick polka (Galop) op. 413 Josef Strauss : Gnomen / Polka française op. 217 Josef Strauss : Village Swallows from Austria / Waltz op. 164 Johann Strauss II : At the Double! / Quick polka op. 348 Josef Strauss : From Afar / Polka mazurka op. 270 Johann Strauss II : Where the Lemon Trees Blossom / Waltz op. 364 Break Johann Strauss II : Light of Heart / Quick polka op. 319 Johann Strauss II : In Praise of Women / Polka mazurka op. 315 Franz Lehár : Gold and Silver / Waltz op. 79 Johann Strauss II : Artists Quadrille op. 201 Johann Strauss II : Cuckoo Polka / Polka française op. 336 Johann Strauss II : Magic Bullets / Polka schnell op. 326 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Eduard Strauss I : Clear the Track! / Quick polka op. 45 Josef Strauss : Without a Care! / Quick polka op. 271 Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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