Ein Artikel in The Calgary Herald Nr. 4860 (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) auf S. 7 befasst sich mit der Wertschätzung fremder Komponisten:

"                   COMPOSERS ABROAD

     One of the most difficult things for the Englishman to understand is why Sullivan and Elgar are not more appreciated abroad than they are. Yet to the Austrian and the Dutchman the lack of appreciation by Englishmen and Americans of the work of Mahler and Bruckner is equally mystifying, while the average German thinks the people of other countries lacking in a taste for melody and humor because they do not find great pleasure in the comic operas of Lortzing. [...]."