The Minneapolis Tribune Nr. 98 (Star Tribune, Minnesota) berichtet auf S. 32 von der Aufführung der 5. Symphonie am 14./15.12.1911:

"            New York Music Letter

                   By S. S. Schroff.

NEW YORK. Dec. 17.–(Special.)–The Royal opera season at Covent Garden, London, closed somewhat suddenly last week. [... Mr. Hammersteins Konkurrenz ... Thomas Beecham ...].

          Elgar's Second Symphony.

     The New York Symphony orchestra under Walter Damrosch on Sunday brought forward for the first time in New York the second symphony of Sir Edward Elgar, [... über dieses Werk ...].

           Stransky Plays "Ervica." [sic]

    Josef Stransky and the Philharmonic Society's orchestra gave a fine exposition of Beethoven's noble third symphony–the "Eroica" before a large audience at Carnegie hall. [... populäres Konzert mit Paolo Gallico ...].

     Mr. Stramsky [sic] and his orchestra on Thursday evening and Friday afternoon played the Fifth symphony, in B flat major, of Anton Bruckner. Welcome, indeed, is the news that he has started his campaign for a man whose genius has been so peculiarly neglexted in this city; thrice welcome, too, the information that he proposes to stick to his guns even in the face of critical shrapnel.

     Stransky certainly ought to know how to conduct the music of Bruckner, and his interpretations of the Vienna master will have to be accepted as authoritative. A pupil of the composer himself, the Philharmonic society's present conductor occupied a particularly warm spot in the veteran musician's heart.

     Though he is fully aware of the way Bruckner's Seventh, Eighth and Ninth symphonies were received in New Yotk, Stransky is absolutely confident, it may be said on authority, that the Fifth, with its tremendous, heavenstorming finale, will win the favor of press and abcd_db. But if it fails to strike home at first hearing the conductor, instead of feeling discouraged, will try again. The cause, he believes, is worth fighting for any rate, and the duty of opening the ears of New Yorkers to the inspired beauties of the great     composer  is to him imperative. In Vienna, as a fact, that Fifth symphony was hailed with extraordinary demonstrations of enthusiasm, and in Berlin, when Stransky conducted it, the last movement caused a sensation.

     It seems strange, in a way, that Bruckner's Fifth symphony has been so long in reaching New York. The Boston Symphony orchestra produced it in Boston as early as Dec. 28, 1901. But the extraordinary difficulties it presents for orchestra and conductor and the amount of practice required to give it adequate preparation offer a reasonable if not entierely satisfactory excuse for this delay. Stransky and his men have already had it in hand, it seems, for several weeks, devoting time and energy to rehearsals whenever occasion offered, even on the orchestra's musical peregrinations outside of New York.

    [... Über ein Konzert Arthur Friedheims ...]."

[Ein weiterer Artikel dazu erschien am 24.12.1911].