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...radio listeners appreciate the importance of good engineers. In Philadelphia last week LeRoy Anspach, a capable pianist, followed the scores note by note. Some of the soft, eerie passages in Rachmaninoff's Island of the Dead might have been lost if Anspach had not pointed them out a second ahead of time to Engineer Gilbert who by a turn of the dial gave them proper volume. The thundering climaxes in Wagner's Götterdämmerung might have overloaded the amplifiers, resulted in blasts and distortion if the flow of electrical energy had not been monitored...
...previous benefits the fee has been $15). All other services, including management, donated by NBC. A Bach concerto for three pianos executed at one & the same time by Harold Bauer, Ernest Hutcheson, Josef Lhevinne, Ernest Schelling (see p. 32) and two others. Concertos played by Fritz Kreisler and Sergei Rachmaninoff, brought together for the first time at one & the same concert. An all-Tchaikovsky program, with Ossip Gabrilowitsch playing the piano concerto...
...program follows in full: March, "Queen of Sheba", Gounod; "Dence Macabre, Symphonic Poem", Saint-Saens; Suite from "Carmen", Bizet; "Facade", Walton; Piano Concerto No. 1, in F sharp minor, First Movement, Rachmaninoff; "California", Tone Poem, Converse; Overture to "Oberon", Weber; Masquerade, "An American Rhapsody", McKinley; "By the Beautiful Blue Danube", Waltz, Strauss; Ride of the Valkyries", Wagner...
...Eugen Onegin" Fantasia, Waltz from Serenade for Strings, and "Marche Slave," by Tchaikovsky, Prelude in G Minor by Rachmaninoff, Volga Bargemen's Song, Jacchia arrangement, and "Panaderos," Spanish Dance, by Glazounov...
...piano recital by Josef Alexander, including works from Bach, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Choloff, Mompou, and Delibes-Dohnanyl, will be given tonight in the Germanic Museum at 8 o'clock. Mr. Alexander has played in Boston with great success but this is his first appearance in Cambridge. The recital is open to the public...