Die Buffalo Evening News Nr. 129 kündigen auf S. 6 die Aufführung der 8. Symphonie am 18.3.1909 in New York an:

"           MUSICAL MATTERS.

     On the occasion of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's next visit to New York, March 18, the orchestra will make its 2700th public appearance. [...].

     Mr. Fiedler will give at the above concert in New York Bruckner's eighth symphony for the first time in Newe York, and played yesterday afternoon and tonight in Boston for the first time in America. The compositions of this master have been the subject of more discussion than almost any of the later 19th century symphonists, but they continue to be given and always under the best auspices in the orchestral world, the latter being composed of minds that make acquaintance with all new musical productions simply as a matter of duty.

     It would stamp a musician with a very undesirable reputation if in a position as conductor of a prominent orchestra, he, from lack of sympathy, failed to produce the works of e. g. Richard Strauss. Personal like or dislike has to be put aside in such questions, [.... über Vorurteile bei Musikern ...]

     [... der nächste Artikel: über Wagners Wunsch, dass seine Sänger schön singen und nicht schreien sollen ...] (*).

 

Aufführung der 8. Symphonie durch das Boston Symphony Orchestra unter Max Fiedler (Wiederholung vom 12.3.1909) (**).

Die nächste Aufführung der Symphonie in Boston erfolgte 1929 unter Koussevitzky (**a).