Ein Artikel in The Sunday News Nr. 25 (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) auf S. 12 wartet mit einigen Anekdoten, aber auch mit einer kuriosen Falschmeldung eines Violinkonzerts (wohl eine Verwechslung mit Max Bruch) auf

"Mr. DAMROSCH Remembers . . . .

[... Abbildung von Walter Damrosch ... Gespräch mit ihm in New York ... Zeit für Retrospektive ...]

THE first figure called forth was that of a small, baldheaded man in whose face were all the qualities of gentleness, goodness amd patience. It was the famous composer, Anton Bruckner. At concerts you may have heard a symphony or two of his, or perhaps his often played violin concerto. Pedantic and uninteresting, you may have thought the music. But the composer himself, while possibly pedantic, was certainly not uninteresting. A Charles Dickens is needed to do him justice.

     "He was naturally of an humble disposition," related Dr. Damrosch. "It was only in his old age that he got any recognition at all, and the long scorn and neglect of his music made him the more humble. Toward th eend of his life he was commanded to appear before the Emperor Francis to receive a decoration. After the ceremony the Emperor very kindly asked him what further he could grant him. Bruckne replied in a trembling voice:

     " 'Won't Your Majesty please speak to Mr. Hanslick (then the principal music critic of Vienna) that he should not write such bad criticisms about my symphonies.'

     "Hans Richter invited him to conduct one of his symphonies with the famous Vienna Society of Friends of Music. At the rehearsal he went to the conductor's stand and stood there with a smile of blessedness on his face. There was an interval of embarrassed waiting, until finally Rose, the concert master, spoke up:

     " 'We ar ready. Begin, Herr Bruckner.'

     " 'After you, gentlemen,' was the composer's polite reply."

     The anecdote was told with an air of humorous meditation. [... über Damroschs Charakter ... weitere anekdotische Begebenheiten (Bülow verlangte in New York irrtümlich ein Kontrafagott für die Tragische Ouvertüre), Rubinsteins Opernmisserfolg, Teresa Careno, Lilli Lehmann u. a. ...]." [keine Signatur] (*).

Die Chicago Tribune Nr. 9 (der Sonntagsausgabe) weist zusätzlich zum gestrigen Inserat in einem Artikel auf S. 64 (= S. 4 des 7. Teils) auf die Aufführung der 9. Symphonie am 4./5.3.1927 hin (**).