Annals of Music in America Part 44

1916. Feb. 6. Production of Seth Bingham's Suite for Orchestra by the Philharmonic Society of New York City.

1916. Feb. 11. Production of Arthur Shepherd's overture "The Festival of Youth" by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.

1916. Feb. 17. Rimsky's-Korsakof's "Serbian Fantaisie" and G.

Hue's suite "Croquois d'Orient" given by the Symphony Society of New York City.

1916. Feb. 18. Production of Daniel Gregory Mason's First Symphony (C minor) by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.

1916. Mar. 3. Gustav Mahler's "Giant Symphony" (Eighth) given by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra with more than one thousand performers.

1916. Mar. 10. Production of J. A. Carpenter's "Concertino" by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, with Percy Grainger as pianist.

1916. April 23. Victor Louis Saar's "Suite Rococo" given by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

1916. April 25. R. Strauss's "Alpine Symphony" given by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

1916. April 25. Production of Franz C. Bornschein's cantata "Onawa" at the Tri-City Musical Festival at Paterson, N. J.

(This work won the prize offered by the New Jersey Choral Society.)

1916. May 4. V. d'Indy's prize choral work "Le Chant de la Cloche"

given by the Cecilia Society in Boston.

1956. June. Production by the Litchfield County Choral Union at Norfolk, Conn., of Percy Grainger's suite for orchestra "In a Nutsh.e.l.l" conducted by the composer; C. M. Loeffler's symphony "Hora Mystica" conducted by the composer.

1916. July 12-16. Production at the Seattle Festival of State Federation of Musical Clubs of C. W. Cadman's symphonic fantasy "To a Vanishing Race" and J. H. Howe's "Festival Overture."

1916. Oct. 16. Ernest Bloch's two poems, "Winter" and "Spring,"

played at the 44th St. Theatre, New York City. (They were given by the New Symphony Orchestra, New York City, on Nov. 5, 1919.)

1916. Oct. 20. Sch.e.l.ling's "Violin Concerto" produced by the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Fritz Kreisler as soloist.

1916. Oct. 26. J. M. Ravel's "Valses n.o.bles et Sentimentales"

given by the Symphony Society, New York City.

1916. Oct. 29. C. S. Skilton's "Two Indian Dances," (1) "Deer Dance" (Rogue River, Ore.), and (2) "War Dance" (Cheyenne), produced by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. (They had been played as a string quartet in January by the Zoellner Quartet.)

1916. Nov. 13. Bizet's opera "Les Pecheurs des Perles" presented entire at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City. (Two acts were given in 1897.)

1916. Nov. 18. American debut of Amelita Galli-Curci, as _Gilda_ in "Rigoletto" with the Chicago Opera Company in Chicago. L.

Campanini conducting.

1916. Nov. 24. Michael Dvorsky's Symphonic Duologue for pianoforte and orchestra, produced by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra with Josef Hofmann (M. Dvorsky) as soloist.

1916. Nov. 25. Gluck's opera "Iphigenia in Tauris" presented at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, with Melanie Kurt, Marie Rappold, L. Sparkes, Sembach, Weil.

1916. Nov. 26. Elgar's adagio "Sospiri," for strings, harps, and organ, given by the Symphony Society of New York City; also Sinigaglia's "etude Caprice" for strings.

1916. Dec. 3. M. Ravel's "Introduction et Allegro" for harp, strings, quartet, flute and clarinet, given by the Symphony Society, New York City.

1916. Dec. 14. Gustav Mahler's "Lied von der Erde" given by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.

1916. Dec. 22, Zandonai's opera "Francesca da Rimini" presented at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City.

1917. Jan. 12. Sibelius's symphonic fantasy "Polyola's Daughter,"

and his symphonic poem "Night Ride and Sunrise" (Op. 53), given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1917. Jan. 18. Leo Sowerby's "Come Autumn Time" produced at a concert in Orchestral Hall, Chicago, conducted by Eric De Lamarter.

1917. Jan. 19. Ballantine's symphonic poem "The Eve of St. Agnes"

produced by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1917. Jan. 26. Percy Grainger's "The Warriors" given by the Symphony Society at Aeolian Hall, New York City, with the composer at the pianoforte.

1917. Feb. 2. Widor's Symphony No. 3 (in E minor) for organ and orchestra given by the Philharmonic Society, New York City, with Gilbert Spross as soloist.

1917. Mar. 8. Reginald de Koven's opera "The Canterbury Pilgrims"

produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, with Ober, Althouse, Ruysdael, and Sembach.

1917. Mar. 23. The First of E. Bloch's "Trois poems Juifs" (Op.

133), "Dance," "Rite," and "Cortege Funebre," presented by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1917. Feb. 6. E. De Lamarter's "The Fable of the Hapless Folktune" produced by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

1917. April 6. Philip Greeley Clapp's Symphony in E flat produced by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1917. April 13. Debussy's "Gigues" given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1917. April 15. Adolf Brune's overture "A Twilight Picture"

produced by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

1917. April 20. Noren's symphony "Vita" given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1917. April 27. F. S. Converse's tone poem "Ave atque Vale"

produced by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1917. May 3. Ernest Bloch's "Two Psalms," for soprano and orchestra, given in New York City.

1917. June. Production of the following works by the Litchfield County Choral Union at Norfolk, Conn.: Nicola Laucella's symphonic impressions "Whitehouse" under the direction of the composer. John Alden Carpenter's symphony "Sermons in Stones"

conducted by F. Stock. Percy Grainger's "The Warriors" (Music to an Imaginary Ballet) conducted by the composer. First performance in America of C. Villiers Stanford's "Irish Rhapsody" No. 5 (dedicated to Lord Roberts).

1917. Oct. 7. First concert of the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra, recently organized, under Arthur Dunham, conductor.

1917. Oct. 26. Mozart's operetta "Bastien et Bastienne" presented at the Empire Theatre, New York City, under Albert Reiss.

1917. Oct. 27. American debut of Jascha Heifetz, Russian violinist, in a recital at Carnegie Hall, New York City.

1917. Nov. 12. Mascagni's opera "Isabeau" presented at the Auditorium, Chicago, by the Chicago Opera a.s.sociation, with Rosa Raisa, Jeska Swartz, Crimi, Rimini, Maguenat, and Nicolay.

Campanini conducting.