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.
Saturday, 05. February 197218.30 o' clock Niigata ⁄ Kenmin Kaikan
Concert in Niigata Second Japan tour
Willi Boskovsky conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta «Waldmeister» (Woodruff) Johann Strauss II : Wine, Women and Song / Waltz op. 333 Johann Strauss II : Town and Country / Polka mazurka op. 322 Eduard Strauss I : By Express Post / Quick polka op. 259 Johann Strauss II : Where the Lemon Trees Blossom / Waltz op. 364 Johann Strauss II : Bandits Galop / Polka schnell op. 378 Johann Strauss II : Opening march from the operetta «The Gypsy Baron» Break Franz Lehár : Gold and Silver / Waltz op. 79 Johann Strauss II : Russian March op. 426 Carl Michael Ziehrer : Viennese Citizens / Waltz op. 419 Johann, Josef & Eduard Strauss II. : Sharpshooters Quadrille Johann Strauss II : We’re Not That Worried / Quick polka (Galop) op. 413 Johann Strauss II : Accelerations / Waltz op. 234 Johann Strauss I : Moan gallop op. 9 Josef Strauss : Fire-Proof! / Polka française op. 269 Johann Strauss II : Czárdás from "Die Fledermaus" Encore Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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