We mentioned the concert agent Harold Holt when we published the facsimile of the programme for the concert of 7 December 1935 in Edinburgh.
In charge of the Berlin Philharmonic’s tours with Furtwängler, he produced the flyer below presenting the planned 1934-35 concert series in Birmingham (“International Subscription Celebrity Concerts”). Among a superb array of artists including Menuhin, Piatigorsky, Horowitz, Conchita Supervia and others, the BPO and its conductor are billed to give a concert on 1 February 1935.
But this was to prove impossible when the time came. Furtwängler had resigned from all his posts in December 1934. His return to favour in the spring of 1935 allowed the tour to take place, but only during the following winter.