New Year's Eve concerts are quite common, as are those on January 1st. For the last musical event marking the shift from 1927 to 1928, Furtwängler was in Leipzig. Request the programme!
And as a gift, this rare collector's card — published by the cigarette manufacturer Josetti at the end of the 1920s — was one of a series of three dedicated to conductors (the other two: Weingartner and Blech), and was intended to fill an album entitled "Die Welt in Bildern" (The World in Pictures), along with sportsmen, actors, scientists and other famous people of the time.
