e
had appeared in concert in 1892, but had gone abroad and now
appeared as an operatic artist.

1903. Nov. 27. Frank Guerney Cauffman's tone poem "Salammbo" given
by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.

1903. Nov. 28. E. Dohnanyi's Symphony in D minor given by the
Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1903, Nov. 30. Carl Busch's cantata "King Olaf" produced by the
Apollo Musical Club of Chicago. H. M. Wild, conductor.

1903. Dec. 8. Bruno Oscar Klein's Suite for violoncello and
orchestra, in F, given by the Philharmonic Society, New York
City.

1903. Dec. 10. Debussy's lyric poem "La Demoiselle Elue" given at
a concert of the pupils of Madame Salisbury, in Boston, with
Helen Allen Hunt as soloist, and Heinrich Gebhardt, pianist. A
full performance with orchestra was given by the Cecilia Society
April 4, 1905, when Isabelle Bouton and Bertha Cushing Child
were soloists.

1903. Dec. 18. Cowen's "Indian Rhapsody" given by the Pittsburgh
Symphony Orchestra.

1903. Dec. 24. First performance in German, outside of Bayreuth,
of Wagner's "Parsifal" given by the Metropolitan Opera Company,
New York City, under Heinrich Conried, with Milka Ternina as
_Kundry_; Alois Burgstaller as _Parsifal_; Anton Van Rooy as
_Amfortas_; Robert Blass as _Gurnemanz_; Marcel Journet as
_Titurel_; Otto Goritz as _Klingsor_, and Alfred Hertz
conductor.

1903. Dec. 26. G. Schumann's "Variationen und Doppelfuge" given by
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

1903. Dec. Edythe Walker, contralto, made her American debut at
the Metropolitan Opera House, in "Aida."

1903-4. Guest conductors of the Philharmonic Society of New York
City:

Edouard Colonne of Paris, France
Gustav F. Kogel " Frankfort am Main, Germany
Henry J. Wood " London, England
Victor Herbert " Pittsburgh, Pa.
Felix Weingartner " Munich, Bavaria
Vasili Safonof " Moscow, Russia
Richard Strauss " Berlin, Germany

1904. Jan. 1. Lemare's "Rhapsody and Caprice Orientale" given by
the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

1904. Jan. 2. Sibelius's Second Symphony (D major) given by the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

1904. Jan. 5. Moussorgsky's fantaisie for orchestra,[1] "Une Nuit
sur le Mont Chauve"; V. d'Indy's "Choral Varie" for saxophone
(dedicated to Mrs. R. J. Hall), Mrs