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, 20. October 197919.00 o' clock Basel ⁄ Music hall of the city casino
Concert in Basel
Willi Boskovsky conductor Rudolf Bibl conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta "The Gypsy Baron" Johann Strauss II : Anna Polka op. 117 Johann Strauss II : Wine, Women and Song / Waltz op. 333 Johann Strauss II : Persian March op. 289 Josef Strauss : Village Swallows from Austria / Waltz op. 164 Break Carl Michael Ziehrer : Walk In / Waltz op. 518 Franz von Suppè : Fatinitza March Franz Lehár : Gold and Silver / Waltz op. 79 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
Due to a preceding illness, of which Willi Boskovsky wasn't cured fully at that time, he got supported by the conductor Rudolf Bibl.
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