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Dance-Signals 2006“Downstairs and Upstairs”The Levels of Viennese Dance MusicVienna, 13 – 19 March 2006 The great success of the Dance Signals Festival in 2004 and 2005 means
that this event can continue to establish itself as the Festival
of Nineteenth-Century Viennese Dance Music this year and in the
years to come. This year’s motto, Dance Music ‘zu
ebener Erde und erster Stock’ (Downstairs and Upstairs)
is taken from the title of a Viennese farce with songs by Johann Nestroy
(1801–1862), Zu ebener Erde und erster Stock oder Die Launen
des Glückes (On the Ground Floor and the First Floor or
the Caprices of Fortune), and the aim is to show very different ways
of approaching nineteenth-century Viennese dance music. One can, for example,
look at the differences and the similarities between dance music composed
for the Court and the aristocracy and dance music composed by the people
and for the people. Or one can look at the original interpretations of
the famous Viennese waltzes, polkas and galops and at their later often
exaggerated reception in the sphere of so-called serious music, for example
in concert paraphrases. Another obvious aspect is the music composed for
plays. Symposium – Concerts – DanceOrganised by The Vienna Institute for Strauss Research in co-operation with The Austrian National Library Prelude Monday 13 March 2006 19:00 Joseph Lanner – Josef Strauss Lectures Thomas Aigner: Joseph Lanner (1801–1843) Music: A selection of compositions by Joseph Lanner and Josef Strauss performed from the original scores Salon Orchestra of the Vienna Music School conducted by Monika Arbeiter-Salzer Admission free
Tuesday 14 March 10.00 – 11.30 Hannelore Unfried: Dance Workshop I In addition to the better known dances for individual couples the repertoire
for balls held during the Strauss era also included a great many dances
for sets of couples, of which nowadays only the quadrille, the polonaise
and the Sir Roger de Coverley/Virginia reel are still in use. The workshop
will introduce a number of examples (écossaise, anglaise, mazurka,
contredanse, kör, Sir Roger de Coverley) and deal with their formal
development from the contredanses francaises and the contredanses
anglaises of the Mozart period.
Tuesday 14 March 2006 15.00 – 15.45 Opening of the symposium Johann Nestroy, Zu ebener Erde und erster Stock (Reading: Otto Brusatti) Wolfgang Klos, University of Music and the Performing Arts, Vienna Johann Strauss I, Tanz-Signale (Dance Signals), waltz op. 218, in an contemporary arrangement for piano duet (Marialena Fernandes and Ingomar Rainer, piano duet) 15.45 – 16.30 Stimulus lecture Wilhelm Sinkovicz: Zu ebener Erde und erster Stock (Downstairs and Upstairs) – High art and low art. Are there really such things? Some observations in the manner of literary journalism on judgements and evaluations of music under the influence of the rise of so-called popular music in nineteenth-century Vienna 16.30 – 16.45 Break 16.45 – 17.30 Hannelore Unfried: Mozart – Contredanses and their development in the nineteenth century 17.30 – 18.15 Rainer Ullreich: All states and conditions of life: 18.15 – 18.30 Break 18.30 – 19.15 Ingomar Rainer: Some thoughts on the performance practice of Viennese dance music of the nineteenth century 19.15 – 20.00 Rudolf Pietsch: The use of the music of the Strauss dynasty in urban and rural surroundings
Wednesday 15 March 2006 14.00 – 16.00 Waltzes and quadrilles Admission charge: EUR 15.— per person ; registration by telephone on (+43 1) 512 71 97 daily from 15.00; limited number of places available
Wednesday 15 March 2006 19.30 Downstairs and Upstairs: Admission free
Thursday 16 March 2006 10.00 – 11.30 Hannelore Unfried: Dance Workshop II Participation is free of charge, but registration is necessary at anmeldungen@johann-strauss.at by 10 March 2006.
Thursday 16 March 2006 15.00 – 15.45 Klaus Hubmann: Musical instruments in Vienna during the Strauss era. Distinctive features of construction – tone – playing technique 15.45 – 16.15 Michael Huber: History of the reception of the Blue Danube Waltz 16.15 – 16.30 Break 16.30 – 18-00 Round table discussion with the lecturers of the
symposium Admission free
Thursday 16 March 2006 19.00 Soirée dansante Admission: EUR 10.-- School and university students EUR 5.--.
Friday 17 March 2006 17.00 Thomas Aigner: To the Court Opera and back – On the centenary
of the Admission free
Friday 17 March 2006 19.30 Concert by the Johann Strauss Orchestra of Vienna
PROGRAMME
Adolf Müller „Raimund“ Ouvertüre
Wenzel Müller „Tanz“
aus der Zauberposse „Der Barometermacher auf der Zauberinsel“
Josef Lanner Die Mozartisten, Walzer op. 196
Adolf Müller „Lumpazivagabundus“ Ouvertüre
Johann Strauss Vater Tanz-Signale, Walzer op. 218
Johann Strauss Vater Fortuna-Galopp op. 69
Emil von Reznicek „Donna Diana“ Ouvertüre
Johann Strauss Sohn Gruß aus Österreich, Polka Mazur op. 359
Johann Strauss Sohn Vom Donaustrande, Polka schnell op. 356
Johann Strauss Sohn Donauweibchen, Walzer op.427
Johann Strauss Sohn Indigo-Marsch op. 349
Johann Strauss Sohn Wiener Blut, Walzer op. 354
Tickets at the Box Office of the Society of the Friends of Music in Vienna
Sunday 19 March 2006 11.00 Up and Down – Dance music ‘Downstairs and Upstairs’ The New Vienna Concert Schrammel Ensemble and Otto Brusatti in the Sträussel Rooms of the Josefstadt Theatre
The organisers reserve the right to alter the programme if necessary Translation: Leigh Bailey >>> up <<< |