THE NEW YORK PERFORMANCE Such a journey was never before undertaken in musical circles here or abroad. Twelve hundred people left Philadelphia by private trains, totalling seventeen cars, about noon on Sunday, April 9th, reached New York in time to have a rehearsal and dine and dress at a hotel and at 8.15 appeared before a packed audience which included all the musicians then in America. It was an inspiring occasion and one long to be remembered. That evening New York unreservedly acclaimed the Philadelphia Orchestra. Scenes of enthusiasm followed the first half, after a tremendous burst of applause when the curtain rose. But at the end the audience let itself go in a way never seen in Philadelphia. There were many musicians in the house, including Ignace Paderewski, the members of the Flonzaley Quartet, Mme. Alma Glück and Efrem Zimbalist, Pablo Fasals, Henry Hadley, Mr. and Mrs. Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Rubin Goldmark, Dr. Frank Damrosch, Victor Harris, Harold Bauer, George W. Chadwick, Mischa Elman, Emma Eames, Leopold Godowsky, Rudolph Ganz, Arthur Foote, David Bispham, Percy Grainger, Arthur Hinton, Alfred Hertz, Franz Kneisel, Daniel Gregory Mason, Ernest Schelling, Walter K. Spalding (Department of Music, Harvard University), Josef Stransky, Arthur Whiting, Marcella Sembrich, Antonio Scotti, Cornelius Rübner (Columbia University), Fritz Kreisler, Mme. Schumann-Heink, and others. _New York Sun_, April 10th, 1916: “EIGHTH SYMPHONY BY MAHLER HEARD “SOCIETY OF FRIENDS OF MUSIC GIVES CONCERT AT THE METROPOLITAN. SENT BY PHILADELPHIA “The Society of the Friends of Music, which has performed a valuable function in the artistic musical life of this metropolis by bringing to the notice of a circle of trained listeners compositions not to be heard at public entertainments, emerged from its privacy to give an ambitious concert last evening in the Metropolitan Opera House. The novelty chosen was Gustav Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, which recently had its first hearing in this country in Philadelphia. “When the huge symphonic and choral creation of Mr. Mahler was produced in Philadelphia, it was praised with emotion and thanksgiving, the interpretation was considered with reverence and rapture, and the concert had to be—or at any rate was—repeated several times. Upon the heels of this excitement, the whole show came to New York.