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, 19. October 198420.15 o' clock Pomona ⁄ State College performing Arts Center
Concert in Pomona 1st US tour
Kurt Woess conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Ouverture to «Die Fledermaus» Johann Strauss II : Singers Joy / Polka française op. 328 Josef Strauss : Chatterboxes: musical joke / Polka op. 245 Johann Strauss II : Emperor Waltz op. 437 Franz von Suppè : Fatinitza March Johann Strauss II : Where the Lemon Trees Blossom / Waltz op. 364 Eduard Strauss I : Clear the Track! / Quick polka op. 45 Break Johann Strauss II : Wine, Women and Song / Waltz op. 333 Carl Michael Ziehrer : Release! / Quick polka op. 386 Carl Michael Ziehrer : Schoenfeld-March op. 422 Johann Strauss II : New Pizzicato Polka, from the Operetta «Fürstin Ninetta» op. 449 Karl Komzák II. : The girls of Baden / Walz op. 257 Encore Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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