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...great, solemn procession of statesmen, relatives, soldiers marched behind the coffin to Chopin's dread funeral music and between two dense, black, sorrowing files of people who lined the entire route of the cortege...
Saturday afternoon in Jordan Hall, Miss Guiomar Novaes, pianiste. Her program includes Beethoven's Sonata, Opus 8la. Chopin's B-flat minor Sonata and pieces by Rameau, Albeniz and Debussy...
...bowing in the soft-lustre before her instrument. She was Marie Leschetizky, final wife of the late Theodor Leschetizky, famed Viennese music teacher,* about to make her Manhattan debut. After due trouble with her chair, she addressed herself to a highly uneventful performance of a Bach Sicilienne. Bach, Liszt, Chopin, Debussy followed; in all of whose works Mme. Leschetizky strove courageously to support the improbable theory that the Kingdom of Heaven can be taken by storm...
...Weakened by the treatment, he died of a heart attack. While he lay dying, his opera Madame Butterfly was being presented at the Costanza Theatre, Rome. On the day of his death, his opera La Boheme was presented at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, where, after the third act, Chopin's Funeral March was played by the orchestra. In Italy, Premier Mussolini announced that Puccini's funeral would be paid for by the Italian Government. Puccini had just been appointed to the Senate...
...Whiting, whose first concert was featured by old English music, will this time play selections from Beethoven, Debussy, Bach, Schubert and Chopin, for the pianoforte. The concert will be open, free of charge, to officers and students of the University, but the public may purchase tickets at $1.25 each, which admit to the gallery...