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, 15. January 202718.30 o' clock Tokyo ⁄ Akishima ⁄ Shimin Kaikan (Foster hall)
Concert at the Foster Hall
Johannes Wildner conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta "The Gypsy Baron" Josef Strauss : Artists's Greeting / Polka française op. 274 Joseph Lanner : Malapou-Galopp op. 148 Josef Strauss : Heart of Woman / Polka mazurka op. 166 Josef Strauss : Delirien / Waltz op. 212 Josef Strauss : Chatterboxes: musical joke / Polka op. 245 Johann Strauss II : Vienna Blood / Waltz op. 354 Break Johann Strauss II : Overture to «A Night in Venice» Josef Strauss : On Holiday Travels! / Quick polka op. 133 Josef Strauss : Friedenspalmen / Walzer op. 207 Johann Strauss II : Fledermaus-Quadrille op. 363 Johann Strauss II : New Pizzicato Polka, from the Operetta «Fürstin Ninetta» op. 449 Johann Strauss II : Excursion Train / Quick polka op. 281 Josef Strauss : Fire-Proof! / Polka française op. 269 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314
Tokyo ⁄ Akishima ⁄ Shimin Kaikan (Foster hall) 3-7-7, Tsutsujigaoka 196-0012 Akishima / Tokyo Japan Show Map
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