The Nebraska State Journal (Lincoln, Nebraska) bringt auf S. 20 (= S. 8 des 2. Teils) einen Bericht über das Berliner Konzertwesen, speziell die Angewohnheit, im Konzert zu essen:

"           Concert Halls in Berlin.

    Time was when eating at the opera was the fashion in Italy. [...].

     In Germany eating at concerts has become the thing. [... Krieg ...] the half-starved people who crowded into them munched wet black war bread between movements to keep their strength up.

     Writing from Berlin to the Musical Courier, Cesar Saerchinger says:

     "The concert halls are still crowded–more so, if anything–and the electricity is still rationed, and the public still eats, during the intermission at any rate. [... has "become a mere habit" ohne dringenden Grund mehr ...].

     The concert halls, Mr. Saerchinger found, were booked to the end of April. The names of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms are conspicuous on the programes. "If the war had lasted another year, I believe Germany would have been completely Brahmsized." In Leipzig, Nikisch has been giving a Bruckner cycle, including all the nine symphonies of that composer, who is duller than Brahms.

     Such a cycle would be impossible anywhere but in Germany. Saerchinger's remarks on a typical orchestral morning audience which he saw in Berlin are an interesting contribution to musical ethno-pschology [sic]. [... über Verhalten und Zusammensetzung des Publikums ...]. At any rate, here they are, by the thousand, sticking to their seats as tho [sic] they were glued, with their food parcels, camping out in forests and meadows of sound. To them a symphony is all that opera is to the Italians and more."  "