The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Nr. 283 (Brooklyn, New York) veröffentlicht auf S. 43 einen Artikel aus der Zeitschrift Forum:
"                 LENGTH OF THE SYMPHONY.
Over Elaboration Is Not a Virtue but a Vice.
     There can be no doubt that the art form of the future for orchestral music is the symphonic poem as constructed by Liszt, Saint-Saens and Dvorak. I would add the name of Richard Strauss [...].
     As the three volume novel has had its day, so the four movement symphony is doomed to extinction. It is too long. Its writers usually labor under the strange delusion that genius consists in taking some insignificant theme and developing it interminably with the utmost display of technical skill and ingenuity. Genius, on the contrary, consists in the faculty of originating significant ideas, expressing them in the simplest possible way and stopping short when all that is new has been said, whether it makes one page or a dozen or more. In architecture there is some excuse for skyscrapers, because if not beautiful they are at any rate useful and profitable. But long symphonies are the reverse of useful and profitable. A very talented composer, who died six years ago, the Viennese, Anton Bruckner, practically wreeked his whole career by writing skyscraper symphonies lasting up to an hour and a half. No conductor dared in risk the success of a whole concert on such works, and, consequently, they were ignored, and the poor deluded man died broken-hearted. He had been unable to read the signs of the times.