Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-20
4 REMARKABLE RECORD.
l,:I:'o Concerts Given by the Boston
symphony Orchestra.

symphony Orchesfru.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra
| played in Washington and in Baltimore
this week. This superb organiza-
| ton. in addition to its annual series OF
forty-e .ght concerts in Boston, has maze
seven western trips. and in the past
eleven years monthly trips of one week S
| duration, 10 New York. Brooklyn, PhIla-
delphia, Baltimore, and Washington. ana
has also visited all the principal New
England cities. Including the second
monthly trip of this season. which ends
on December list this now famous or
eanizaton has given the realiy-remark-
able total number OF thirteen hundred and
.hirty-nine performances. thus establish
ing record thaJ probably cannot be du-
plicated IN the world. Some of the older
European Orchestras have been in exist
ence many more years, ana our own New
York Philharmonic Society, tn parent
orchestral organization OF fhis country.
can show more than fifty years TO its
credit: but the lesser number of concerts
given annually so reduces the total num-
Der that the Boston symphony Orchestra
undoubtedly heads ths list. Seven hum
drcd and nineteen performances have
and twenty in ihirty-seven cities through
out the United States, from Maine to
Minnesota. Cambridge. Mass, with a
series Of ninety-seven concerts. which be-
gan he first year OF the oTcncTgra-s exist
ence. and which are held under the
auspices Of Harvard College I'm their Me
mortal Hail. heads the list OF cities visited,
which We append below. with the total
number of concerts given In each city:
Cambridge Observation-Disclosures. ..........Fi
philadelphia ................. ..............ls
PROVIDENCE ...--...-.-.... ..................fi
New York ...........-...... ...............ii
Washington ........... .................. II
Brooklyn .....-......--.. ........-...-.....i y
Baltimore ....-..... .....-......-...........d -
worcester ........... ................f....Z9
Portland, Me. INSTRUMENTATION. ....... y
New Haven ................ ...............Y
tn!caeo ......... .............. ............ 10
BInaIO ..............- ....-......... ......io
Pltisburg ......... ........... '...'......'...l5
tieNeiand ................... ........ ....lV
LOUISVILLE .............'. '...s........''''.lV
salem, Mass. 10
Fan River OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. .......IO
Cincinnati ......... ................... ....5
Hartford ................ ...................S
NV BEDFORD ............... ..............s
Detroit ....... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Columbus .....-................ ....'......- -
Springfield, Mass. ...........................G
Lower ...... ...............-..... .....- ....o
Fitchburg ............-...... ...... ........b
Milwaukee ................. ....---.........o
Lynn ..........-.. .......... ...............o
Ann Arbor University .....................4
Rochester, y. Y. ........... ..............s
Taunton ............ ....... ..............3
Newport X. I.................. ...............3
Richmond, Va. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Grand Rapids, ................ ............2
Norwich, Conn. ............................z
Lawrence .......... ........................2
Haverhili .......... .................. s.....Z
syracuse OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ...t.....2
81 paul, Minneapolis. Toledo. Albany.
Erie, Melrose, Lewiston. and Wakefield,
one each.
VITA such remarkable grand total or
performances given there y naturally
unlimited opportunity for detailed sta
ustics of the greatest variety. Lack or
SPACE prevents an extended array OF
ngures; but attention is called to the
fact that, assuming an average OF FIVE Sc
I-ctOns for each concert, there have been
between six and seven thousand numbers
performed over one thousand sOloists
have appeared. something over one mar
Of them singers, and the rest divided
cellisis. Bearing in mind that all the
performances given by the orchestra en-
route are made up OF selections already
played in the Boston concerts, there have
been over fifteen hundred private re-
nearsals. II is also worthy of note that
ten Of the members of the orchestra
the first season still remain WIN the or
ganzation. and over one half the or
chegtra have been members FOR Ten years
As The Boston symphony Orchestra Is
an organization founded and maintained
by a private citizen, IT has always been
the policy OF the management TO refrain
from the publication o. any financial 1e-
tails; bat IL is safe 10 assert that even
the most moderate average receipts would
result in an enormous sum or money ex-
pended in the patronage bestowed upon
these concerts. Seventeen States are re-
presented in the list OF cities given above,
excellent evidence that the Boston SYM
phony Orchestra is now a national or
gauisdtion.