Der Evening Ledger Nr. 36 (Evening Public Ledger, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) kündigt auf S. 13 die Aufführung der 4. Symphonie [am 30./31.10.1914] an:

"           Philadelphia Orchestra Program

     For the third pair of concerts Mr. Stokowski announces a program and a soloist of marked interest, the program because of its revival of Anton Bruckner's Fourth Symphony, unheard here for 11 years [siehe die Anmerkung], and the violinist, Frank Gittelson, a Philadelphian, for reasons of local artistic pride.

     Mr. Gittelson [... Schüler von Carl Flesch ...].

     The "Romantic" symphony, in E flat major, with which Mr. Stokowski will begin the program was composed by Bruckner after he came under the pronounced influence of Richard Wagner, and is, in fact, the first in which Bruckner shows himself as the champion of the Wagnerian school. Bruckner's nine symphonies have all received partisan criticism, sometimes violent in nature. The fourth, as those which followed it, is not of the sort upon which a one-hearing judgment can be passed. The orchestra does well to revive it. The concerto chosen for Mr. Gittelson is Lalo's in F, and the program concludes with Liszt's Huungarian Rhapsody, No. 1."