Pleasure trips by train to places close to — or even some distance from — Vienna, or perhaps by steamship to faraway destinations such as Constantinople, Cairo or even further into the Orient, became extremely popular in the second half of the nineteenth century. And so in the winter of 1863–4 Johann Strauss II composed the quick polka with the title Vergnügungszug, even including in the instrumentation a ‘conductor’s horn’, which was used to sound the signal for a train to depart. The various railway companies, at that time competing with one another, regularly offered their passengers so-called ‘excursion trains’ to attractive destinations.
Johann Strauss II. : Pleasure Train / Polka schnell op. 281 © by WJSO-Archive
Wednesday, 18. June 198619.00 o' clock Asahikawa ⁄ Shimin Bunka Kaikan
Concert in Asahikawa 5th Japan tour
Kurt Woess conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Ouverture to «Die Fledermaus» Johann Strauss II : Anna Polka op. 117 Johann Strauss II : Eljen A Magyar! « Long Live the Magyar!» / Quick polka op. 332 Josef Strauss : Mysterious Powers of Attraction (Dynamiden) / Waltz op. 173 Johann Strauss II : Excursion Train / Quick polka op. 281 Johann Strauss II : Artist’s Life / Waltz op. 316 Break Johann Strauss II : Persian March op. 289 Josef Strauss : Watercolours / Waltz op. 258 Johann Strauss II : Cuckoo Polka / Polka française op. 336 Johann Strauss II : Light of Heart / Quick polka op. 319 Johann Strauss II : Bandits Galop / Polka schnell op. 378 Johann & Josef Strauss : Pizzicato Polka Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
Asahikawa ⁄ Shimin Bunka Kaikan 〒 Asahikawa Japan
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