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.
Sunday, 19. January 202517.00 o' clock Luzern / Kultur- und Kongresszentrum (KKL)
Concert in Luzern
Johannes Wildner conductor Corina Koller soprano Franz Gürtelschmied tenor Rosenberg Kilian moderator
Program Franz Lehár : Gold and Silver / Waltz op. 79 Johann Strauss II : «Als flotter Geist», Entreecouplet aus der Operette «Der Zigeunerbaron» Franz Lehár : Zwanzinetta based on motifs from the operetta «Eva» Franz Lehár : «Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiß», Song from Operetta «Giuditta» Johann Strauss II : Accelerations / Waltz op. 234 Johann Strauss II : From the Banks of the Danube / Quick polka op. 356 Johann Strauss II : Voices of Spring / Waltz op. 410 Break Franz Lehár : «Dein ist mein ganzes Herz» aus der Operette «Das Land des Lächelns» Johann Strauss II : Emperor Waltz op. 437 Johann Strauss II : Hunting / Quick polka op. 373 Johann Strauss II : «Klänge der Heimat», Csardas der Rosalinde aus «Die Fledermaus» Johann Strauss II : Csárdás from the opera «Knight Pásmán» op. 441 Johann Strauss II : Dieser Anstand so manierlich «Uhrenduett» Josef Strauss : Fire-Proof! / Polka française op. 269 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314
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