Besprechung des gestrigen Konzerts in The New York Times Nr. 20500 auf S. 11:

"              MUSICAL ART SOCIETY.

     The Musical Art Society's Spring concert given last evening in Carnegie Hall was like its Spring concerts for twenty years past, as finely chosen as to its programme, as satisfying as to its performance. [... zu den einzelnen Werken (Palestrina, Josquin Desprez, Sweelinck, Perti ...] in an obviously later style than those that precede it.

     The chorus was less successful in coping wth it and sang with less steadiness and certainly than in the music that had gone before. The last number of this group was Bruckner's "Ave Maria," [WAB 6] that had been sung at the Christmastide concert, a striving after the spirit and manner of the older scholl by y follower of Wagner.

     The vocal sections of the programme were divided by a performance of a "divertimento" by Mozart [...].

     In the modern group Peter Cornelius's name led as the composer of a religous song [... Hans Leo Haßler, Gastoldi, Donato etc. ... Brahms-Zigeunerlieder (arr. Damrosch)] a small orchestra, instead of the piano, which were sung with much spirit." [keine Signatur] (*).

 

The Evening World (New York) schreibt auf S. 15:

"Musical Art's Spring Concert One of its Best

THE spring concert of the Musical Art Society at Carnegie Hall last evening, which marked the close of its twenty-first season, challenged the best of the always choice concerts that the society has given. Dr. Frank Damrosch was especially happy in the making of his programme, and the mixed choir of seventy well trained voices, under his direction, interpreted it with beauty of tone and technical excellence altogether admirable. [... lateinische Motetten (Palestrina, Josquin de Pres, Sweelinck (wurde wiederholt), Perti) ...]. Added to this group, and belonging to it by reason of construction and intent, was the beautiful nineteenth century "Ave Maria" of Bruckner's.

     Next there was played by a small orchestra [... Mozart, a-capella-Chöre, Zigeunerlieder (Brahms) ...].

     The audience was large, musically cultivated, fashionable and enthusiastic." (**).