Aufführung der 7. Symphonie durch das Chicago Symphony Orchestra unter Frederick Stock. Zum Andenken an [den am 4.1.1905 verstorbenen] Theodor Thomas werden außerdem vier Arrangements aus dessen Feder (Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven und Chopin) aufgeführt. Wiederholung vom 5.1.1917 (*).

Besprechung des gestrigen Konzerts in The Chicago Tribune Nr. 6 auf S. 10, signiert "F. D." [vermutlich Frederick Donaghey]:

"THOMAS MEMORIAL IN ORCHESTRA'S PROGRAM

THE touch of Theodore Thomas is on every item of the five that make up Mr. Stock's thirteenth program, designed as the Orchestra's annual tribute to the founder: even Brückner's seventh symphony, which he made known, I believe, in the United States   It had not until yesterday been played in eleven years: it is among the likelihoods of program-making that Mr. Stock will be equally continent in his future attitude toward the composition.

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     Yesterday's was my first hearing of this symphony, which, lacking beauty–save in fugitive glimpses–and emotion, is sheerly depressive in its regularity, its faultlessness, its quality of something perfectly done and not especially worth the trouble. A touch of feeling, with an occasional bit of lovely coloring in the second movement; a passage of real vivicity in the mostly-pedantic scherzo; a smashing climax of uninspired urgency and deliberation–these are items that stood out in a performance which contained the best of Mr. Stock and his men.

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The great overture to "Don Giovanni," with the "concert-finish" provided by Mr. Thomas, and his arrangements for orchestra of [... Schubert, Beethoven und Chopin ...] make the right balance for the Brückner: these fragments were played with delightful effect, and served again to illustrate one of the most attractive attributes of the Orchestra's founder.

                                    F. D." (**).