Aufführung der 3. Symphonie in Teplitz (*).

The Indianapolis News Nr. 25/11572 bringen auf S. 7 die bereits bekannte Würdigung Karl Mucks:

"    NOTHINGH FANTASTIC IN DR. MUCK'S CONDUCTING

                NEW YORK CRITIC'S ACCOUNT

[...]

     W. J. Henderson, the New York critic, has published the following estimate of Dr. Muck:

     "Dr. Muck was well known to those who make it their business to keep track of musical affairs in Europe. [... zwei weitere Absätze ... zwei Arten von Publikum ...].

     "This latter is the musical public, and its taste can be trusted to arrive at just verdicts. It has pronounced most emphatically in favor of Dr. Muck, the man with the continent style and the splendid results. No one of the music lovers who have spent most of their lives in observing musical doings was deceived by the applause which followed Dr. Muck's reading of Bruckner's E major symphony. That applause was not an expression of gratitude to old Bruckner for projecting into the world his troublous music, but to Dr. Muck for his clear, lucid and euphonious reading of the composition.

           Quick to Recognize Achievement.

     "The audience was quick to recognize the nature of the achievement and it conveyed its satisfaction in no doubtful terms. Dr. Muck's triumph on this occasion was more notable than at his debut, though at the first concert the applause was more enthusiastic. But at that time the hearers were moved by the beautiful music of Brahms. It was music which they all knew and loved, and they rejoiced at an interpretation such as they had not heard in many a long day.

      [...]." (**).