The Brooklyn Times (Times Union, Brooklyn, New York) berichtet auf S. 9 vom Konzert am 14.12.1911 mit der 5. Symphonie:

"                  PHILHARMONIC CONCERT.

     It was well worth sitting through the inconsequential platitudes of Bruckner's Symphony a B flat major No. 5, given for the first time in New York Thursday night at Carnegie Hall, by the Philharmonic Society, to hear the superb rendering of the Leonore No. 3 overture of Beethoven and the orchestra rendering of the Immolation music to "Gotterdammerung," sung by Lillian Nordica, under the baton of Mr. Stransky, which seemed surcharged with the fire and inspiration of real genius. Seldom indeed has such music been heard anywhere as that which the Philharmonic men and Mr. Stransky poured forth overpoweringly and lavishly. After it, no doubt can be entertained of Mr. Stransky's right to be classed with the Thomases, The Seidls, Mahlers, Damrosches, Stocks and Fiedlers in the conductor's temple of fame. Playing as it did Thursday night the Philharmonic Orchestra can challenge the world of music.

     The magnetism and popularity [... Nordica mit Götterdämmerung-Schlussszene und vier Liedern ...].

     The Bruckner symphony seemed scarcely worth while were it not for the masterly treatment accorded it by Mr. Stransky and the orchestra. It is a work consisting entirely of contrapuntal variations and disturbingly electric.It contains some florid orchestration and though composed in 1878, according to the notes on the progframme, oddly enough, contains themes or rather parti-themes, vaguely recalling Gounod, Bizet and even Puccini, as well as Wagner."