The formal opening of the Suez Canal -- linking Port Said, on the Mediterranean Sea, and the Egyptian port of Suez, on the Red Sea -- was celebrated on 16 November 1869 by an inaugural ceremony at Port Said. On the following day sixty-eight vessels of various nationalities began the passage, arriving at Suez four days later. The opening of this artificial waterway created considerable interest around the world, and in Vienna gave rise to Anton Bittner's burlesque, Nach Ägypten (Into Egypt), presented at the Theater an der Wien on 26 December that year. It was here as a processional march for Egyptian warriors before the final scene, that the Viennese public first became acquainted with the sinuous themes of Johann Strauss's Ägyptischer Marsch. The composer, ever mindful of current affairs, had in fact written the piece for his 1869 summer concert season in Pavlovsk -- shared that year with his brother Josef -- and had conducted its première at the Vauxhall Pavilion there on 6 July (= 24 June, Russian calendar) at a benefit concert for the two brothers.
Johann Strauss II. : Egyptian March op. 335 © by WJSO-Archive
Saturday, 03. January 202613.00 o' clock Tokorozawa Civic Cultural Center MUSE
Concert in Tokorozawa Civic Cultural Center MUSE
Johannes Wildner conductor Cirque de la Symphonie circus artists
Program Johann Strauss II : Ouverture to «Die Fledermaus» Johann Strauss II : Thunder and Lightning / Quick polka op. 324 Josef Strauss : Watercolours / Waltz op. 258 Johann Strauss II : Egyptian March op. 335 Christoph Willibald Gluck : «Dance of The Furies» von Orphée et Euridice George Bizet : Suite No. 2 «Dance Boheme» Aram Chatschaturjan : Waltz from «Masquerade» Manuel De Falla : Spanischer Tanz von «La Vida Breve» Break Charles Gounod : Spiegel-Tanz aus der Balletmusik aus Faust Bedřich Smetana : Tanz der Komödianten aus "Die verkaufte Braut" Josef Strauss : Without a Care! / Quick polka op. 271 Manuel De Falla : Ritual Fire Dance from «El Aor Brujo» Amilcare Ponchielli : Dance of the Hours Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Jacques Offenbach : Can-Can aus „Orpheus in der Unterwelt“ Johann Strauss II : Voices of Spring / Waltz op. 410 Edward Elgar : Pomp & Circumstances March
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