In 1900-1901 the Philadelphia Orchestra, composed of 85 musicians gave six evening concerts. In 1925-26 this orchestra, composed of 106 musicians, will give performances as per the following schedule: [41]ACADEMY OF MUSIC, PHILADELPHIA Regular Series, 29 Friday afternoons, 29 Saturday evenings 58 Special Series, Monday evenings 10 Children’s Concerts, 2 series 8 Philadelphia Forum 3 Philadelphia Award 1 Out-of-town Concerts: New York City 10 Washington 5 Baltimore 3 Pittsburgh, Dayton, Chicago, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Princeton, one each 7 —— TOTAL 105 RECORD OF PERFORMANCES Total number of concerts, twenty-five years 2017 Number postponed 6 Number cancelled (Ottawa, 1924) 1 [41] For full list of performances, see Appendix E. A more perfect fulfillment of obligations would be hard to find. The regular series of symphony concerts in Philadelphia has been the primary object and main concern of the Association. Other performances have been included when the Philadelphia demand did not consume all the time of the orchestra. Now a third series is being built up, consisting of ten Monday evening concerts, at which the programmes are identical with those of ten of the regular series. More and more this city is absorbing its own orchestra. During these twenty-five years much traveling has been done. The first journey was to Reading in 1900. The next year concerts in five Pennsylvania cities were added as well as in Trenton and Wilmington. In 1902-03 the first concerts in Baltimore and Washington were attempted and the first New York appearance was made. Growing bolder with advancing years appearances were made in new cities each year, of which the following are the most important: Boston (1903-04); Baltimore and Washington, five each (1906-07); Pittsburgh, one (1911-12), five pairs (1916-17); New York City, five afternoon concerts (1918-19); Toronto, three concerts (1919-20); New York City, ten concerts (1922-23). The orchestra has traveled as far east as Portland, Maine; as far west as Detroit and Ypsilanti, Michigan; as far south as Richmond, Virginia, and as far north as Toronto, Canada. During the coming season Chicago will be added to this list.