Aufführung der 4. Symphonie durch das Philharmonische Orchester Stockholm unter Siegmund von Hausegger (*).

 

Bruckner wird kurz erwähnt in The Pittsburgh Daily Post Nr. 108 auf S. 61 (= S. 5 des 6. Teils):

"Musical Notes and Comment on Current Events

[...]

               By HARVEY B. GAUL.

    The German Oper aCompany [sic] which is shortly to invade our Ruhral Valley, tie up our coal industry and coke ovens for a few nights, promises to be an event of many and uneven interests. [... über das Opern-Gastspiel ...].

     [... mehr spöttisch als ernsthaft über Schönberg und die Gurre-Lieder ... "herr professor of cacaphony", "Gas masks will be furnished to the audience", "chamber music orchestra of 114 parts" ...]. Consult your ear specialist mow. You may not be able to stand the test.

     If I had my life to live over again, [... Vision einer neuen Lebensgestaltung ...]. After I'd have learned the bleating, smashing technique of the required instrument, I'd go through the archives of music and become familiar with all the classics, from Bach to Brahms, from Beethoven to Bruckner and I'd learn them inside out. Not to play them as they are, God forbid that a well-schooled jazzist should stoop so low, but merely to rag them in the prevailing fashion. I'd never learn a note of composition, that would be time lost, [... ausführlich in diesem Stil weiter ... über einen Bariton ... über neue Musikalien ...]." (**).