Annals of Music in America Part 32

1903. Jan. 30. Ritter's "Symphonic Waltz," and Wagner's "Coronation March" given by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

1903. Jan. 31. Fibich's overture in F major to Vrehlicky's comedy "A Night on Karlstein," and Mackenzie's suite for violin and orchestra, "Pibroch," given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1903. Feb. 5. L. von Gaertner's tone poem "Macbeth" given by the Wetzler orchestra in Carnegie Hall, New York City. Also Hugo Heermann, noted violinist, made his American debut, playing the Beethoven Violin Concerto.

1903. Feb. 7. Hugo Kaun's symphonic poems, "Minnehaha" and "Hiawatha" given by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

1903. Feb. 7. Sibelius's symphonic poem "The Swan of Tuenela"

given by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

1903. Feb. 8. Dubois's oratorio "Paradise Lost" given by the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston.

1903. Feb. 13. Coleridge Taylor's Ballad in D minor given by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

1903. Mar. 14. Production of F. Stahlberg's tone poem "To the Memory of Abraham Lincoln" by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

1903. Mar. 14. G. Schumann's overture "The Dawn of Love" given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1903. Mar. 23. Elgar's cantata "The Dream of Gerontius" given by the Apollo Musical Club, Chicago. H. M. Wild conductor.

1903. April 4. G. M. Witkowski's Symphony in D minor given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1903. April 11. F. S. Converse's symphonic poem "Endymion's Narrative" produced by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1903. April 15. The "Marche Funebre" from the last scene of Berlioz's "Hamlet" given by the Orchestral Club, Boston.

1903. April 18. R. Strauss's "Burleske" in D minor for pianoforte and orchestra, given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1903. Oct. 17. The "Entr'acte Symphonique" from Bruneau's opera "Messidor" given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1903. Oct. 24. Variations on a Russian Theme, by six Russian composers, given by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

1903. Oct. 24. E. F. Arbos's morceau de concert "Tango," and Glazunof's "Fourth Symphony" (E flat) given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1903. Oct. 30. American debut of Jacques Thibaud, French violinist, at a Wetzler concert in Carnegie Hall, New York City.

1903. Oct. 31. V. d'Indy's symphonic introduction to "L'etranger"

given by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

1903. Oct. Symphony Society of New York City, reorganized with Walter Damrosch as conductor.

1903. Nov. 7. Bruneau's symphonic poem "La Belle aux Bois Dormant"

also Elgar's incidental music for "Granis and Diarmid" given by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

1903. Nov. 20 Glazunof's Seventh Symphony given by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

1903. Nov. 23. American debut of Enrico Caruso, noted Italian tenor, as the _Duke_ in "Rigoletto" at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City.

1903. Nov. 25. American operatic debut of Olive Fremstad as _Sieglinde_ at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City. She had appeared in concert in 1892, but had gone abroad and now appeared as an operatic artist.

1903. Nov. 27. Frank Guerney Cauffman's tone poem "Salammbo" given by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.

1903. Nov. 28. E. Dohnanyi's Symphony in D minor given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1903, Nov. 30. Carl Busch's cantata "King Olaf" produced by the Apollo Musical Club of Chicago. H. M. Wild, conductor.

1903. Dec. 8. Bruno Oscar Klein's Suite for violoncello and orchestra, in F, given by the Philharmonic Society, New York City.

1903. Dec. 10. Debussy's lyric poem "La Demoiselle elue" given at a concert of the pupils of Madame Salisbury, in Boston, with Helen Allen Hunt as soloist, and Heinrich Gebhardt, pianist. A full performance with orchestra was given by the Cecilia Society April 4, 1905, when Isabelle Bouton and Bertha Cushing Child were soloists.

1903. Dec. 18. Cowen's "Indian Rhapsody" given by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

1903. Dec. 24. First performance in German, outside of Bayreuth, of Wagner's "Parsifal" given by the Metropolitan Opera Company, New York City, under Heinrich Conried, with Milka Ternina as _Kundry_; Alois Burgstaller as _Parsifal_; Anton Van Rooy as _Amfortas_; Robert Bla.s.s as _Gurnemanz_; Marcel Journet as _t.i.turel_; Otto Goritz as _Klingsor_, and Alfred Hertz conductor.

1903. Dec. 26. G. Schumann's "Variationen und Doppelfuge" given by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

1903. Dec. Edythe Walker, contralto, made her American debut at the Metropolitan Opera House, in "Ada."

1903-4. Guest conductors of the Philharmonic Society of New York City:

Edouard Colonne of Paris, France Gustav F. Kogel " Frankfort am Main, Germany Henry J. Wood " London, England Victor Herbert " Pittsburgh, Pa.

Felix Weingartner " Munich, Bavaria Vasili Safonof " Moscow, Russia Richard Strauss " Berlin, Germany

1904. Jan. 1. Lemare's "Rhapsody and Caprice Orientale" given by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

1904. Jan. 2. Sibelius's Second Symphony (D major) given by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

1904. Jan. 5. Moussorgsky's fantaisie for orchestra,[1] "Une Nuit sur le Mont Chauve"; V. d'Indy's "Choral Varie" for saxophone (dedicated to Mrs. R. J. Hall), Mrs. Hall soloist: Rabaud's eclogue "Poeme Virgilien"; and Augusta Holmes's symphonic poem "Irlande," given by the Orchestral Club in Boston, G. Longy, conductor.

1904. Jan. 8. F. Stahlberg's Suite (Opus 10) produced by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

1904. Jan. 12. American debut of Pablo Casals, noted violoncellist, at a concert given by Sam Franko in the New Lyceum, New York City.

1904. Jan. 23. Glazunof's suite "Moyen Age" given by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

1904. Jan. 23. Schumann's suite for orchestra "In Carnival Time"

given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1904. Jan. 28. First concert of the Russian Symphony Orchestra, organized by Modest Altschuler, in Cooper Union Hall, New York City. Rachmaninof's "The Cliff" was played for the first time in America.

1904. Feb. 6. Dubois's overture "Frithjof" given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1904. Feb. 9. Elgar's oratorio "The Apostles" given by the Oratorio Society, New York City.

1904. Feb. 10. Debussy's three nocturnes, "Images," "Fetes," and "Sirens," given at a Chickering production concert in Boston, B.

J. Lang conducting.

1904. Feb 11. Ippolitof-Ivanof's "Caucasian Sketches" given by the Russian Symphony Orchestra, New York City.