The Wichita Eagle Nr. 41 (Wichita, Kansas) bringt auf S. 6 einen Artikel, der Äußerungen Arthur Nikischs mitteilt:

"NIKISCH TELLS OF ORCHESTRA SYMPHONY FADS

Famous Musical Director Coming to Wichita in April Is Interviewed on His Work in Leipsic.

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     From Leipsic, a correspondent of the Musical Courier recently sent to his paper an interesting interview with Arthur Nikisch, who is coming to Wichita in April to conduct a concert by the London Symphony Orchestra.

     The interview was as follows:

     When the home office of the Musical Courier sent out a call for an interview with Arthur Nikisch, the first opportunity to bring the matter before Professor Nikisch was in the artist room of the Gewandhaus [... nach einer Morgenprobe ...]

     "All right. I was born in Hungary in 1855. I hate interviews and I am going to America in April with the London Symphony Orchest–"

     "–And you like America?"

     "Yes, of course.

     "Good. That is just what we were wanting." That ended the interview proper.

     [... danach noch Äußerungen über die Programmplanung ... Fragen nach den Strömungen in neuerer symphonischer Musik ...]. Would it be possible to separate and classsify the influence of those respective mood zones?"

     "No. After crediting Wagner with the radical change in compositional procedure it is not possible to say that any one composer has been responsible for a general mood direction, since each gifted composer's output is strongly individual to itself and the composer true to his own nature. It was especially said of Bruckner that he was trying to symphonize Wagnerian spirit, yet nothing could be farther from the truth. Bruckner was a staunch friend and admirer of Wagner and his work. So did someone promote the false idea that he was trying to perpetuate the Wagnerian spirit of classic forms. The idea spread and was a popular one for a long time. Nevertheless, the content of Bruckner's symphonies represents the inner musical life of an extraordinary gifted and individual nature."

     "Then there  may come a time when the Bruckner symphonies will be generally recognized as a great permanent treasure, and will be played much more than now, or more than at any period they have yet experienced?"

     "Most certainly that time will come, for it looks to be impossible that so much noble music may exist without being some time called into use. As for all the other modern music that has come up and found more or less frequent performance within a generation, it has had the practical influence not only of vastly improving orchastra [sic] player's technical facility, but it has proved a valuable intellectual exercise for the general improvement of interpretative ideals. [... Verbesserung auch bei Beethoven- und Schubert-Spiel ...].

     [... über frühere Gedanken zu Brahms, über Nikischs Amerika-Freundlichkeit und seine Unterstützung amerikanischer Künstler ...].

     Arthur Nikisch is a musical cosmopolitan [...]. Meantime America's abligation [sic] to him is one that cannot be repaid.

                                             EUGENE E. SIMPSON." (*).

 

In einem Artikel über Josef Stransky in The Minneapolis Tribune Nr. 119 (Star Tribune, Minnesota) auf S. 42 (= S. 24 dieses Zeitungsteils) wird Bruckner erwähnt:

"        New York Music Letter

NEW YORK, Jan. 7 [... Tod von Alberto Randegger in London ... neues Opernhaus in Berlin ... Stranskys Vertrag um drei Jahre verlängert ...].

     Josef Stransky is 39 years old. He was born in Humpoletz, near Deutschbrod, close to the boundary of Bohemia and Moravia, on Sept. 9, 1872, [... in Prag Kontakte mit Fiebig, Losta und Dvorak, Medizinstudium ...]. But the call of music was irresistible. Stransky went to Leipsic and became a pupil of Jadassohn. Subsequently he studied composition under Fuchs in Vienna and under Anton Bruckner. Angelo Neumann engaged him for [... Prag ... 1903 Hamburg ... Berliner Blüthner-Orchester ... über Weingartners E-Dur-Symphonie ... Gastspiel der Bostoner in New York [kein Bruckner] ...]." (**).