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
Thursday, 03. February 197218.30 o' clock Sendai ⁄ Miyagi Kenmin Kaikan (Tokyo Electron Hall)
Concert in Sendai Second Japan tour
Willi Boskovsky conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Ouverture zu «Prinz Methusalem» Johann Strauss II : Demolishers Polka / Polka française op. 269 Josef Strauss : Eingesendet / Polka schnell op. 240 Josef Strauss : Delirien / Waltz op. 212 Josef Strauss : Chatterboxes: musical joke / Polka op. 245 Johann Strauss II : Fledermaus-Quadrille op. 363 Johann Strauss II : Eljen A Magyar! « Long Live the Magyar!» / Quick polka op. 332 Break Johann Strauss II : Voices of Spring / Waltz op. 410 Carl Milloecker : Postscriptum / Polka Mazurka Franz von Suppè : Fatinitza March Johann Strauss II : Roses from the South / Waltz op. 388 Johann Strauss II : Magic Bullets / Polka schnell op. 326 Johann Strauss II : New Pizzicato Polka, from the Operetta «Fürstin Ninetta» op. 449 Eduard Strauss I : Non-Stop / Quick polka op. 112 Johann Strauss II : Tales from the Vienna Woods / Waltz op. 325 Encore Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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