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Died. Berthold Neuer, 57, vice president and general manager of William Knabe & Sons (pianos), authority on musical history, friend & adviser of many world-famed musicians (Richard Strauss, Rachmaninoff, Kirsten Flagstad, Friedrich Schorr); of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...Hungarian March, "Rakoczy"Berlioz *Fantasy, "Zion" Phillipson *Mazurka from "A Life for the Czar" Glinka *"Carmen," Fantasia Bizet *Overture to "The Impresario" Mozart *Prelude to Act III, "Die Meistersinger" Wagner *Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 Rachmaninoff Soloist; Jesus Maria Sanroma *"Briar Rose," Waltz from "The Sleeping Beauty" Tchaikovsky *Song of the Volga Bargemen Arranged by Jacchia *Sixth Hungarian Dance Brahms *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Stors, Harvard Square...
Walter Gieseking, beginning a transcontinental jaunt this week, will bolster a touring pianistic lineup which is topped by Rachmaninoff and includes able Rudolf Serkin, Alexander Brailowsky. Hulking, oddly demure of face. Pianist Gieseking will reach California in December. There he likes to relax by hunting butterflies. Son of a German physician and entomologist, Gieseking has one of the largest privately owned collections of butterflies in Europe. He has detected resemblances between California butterflies and European species, believes their forebears migrated by way of Asia and Alaska thousands of years ago. Once Gieseking found six caterpillars in Berkeley, took them...
...cabaret entertainment, Harpo Marx finds his way to the piano, starts to play Rachmaninoff's Prelude. When he hits a bass note, the piano begins to misfire. When he plays allegro, the top flies off. When he becomes angry, all the keys begin to fly around his ears. Pleased, Harpo removes the strings, uses them for a magnificent harp solo...
...Egmont" Beethoven *The Flight of the Bumble-bee Rimsky-Korsakov *"Cavalleria Rusticana," Fantasia Mascagni *"Peer Gynt" Suite Grieg Morning Mood--Anitra's Dance--In the Hall of the Troll King *Ave Maria Bach-Gouned *Polovetzkian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin *"Danube Waves," Waltzes Ivanovici *Prelude in G minor Rachmaninoff *Carioca Youmans...