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Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937
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1In 1890-91 the Boston Symphony Orchestra held their New York concerts in Chickering Hall. These were among the most influential concerts given in New York. The Manuscript Society, founded to encourage American musicians by performances of their compositions, made its bow December tenth.
3In 1898 an important series of orchestral concerts was given under the management of Chickering & Sons with Anton Seidl as conductor, and Franz Rummel made his appearance as a soloist. Other soloists were Xaver Scharwenka and Richard Hoffman.
5Artists who made their American debut in this Hall were Rafael Joseffy, October 13, 1879, who played Chopin's Concerto in E Minor and Liszt's Concerto in E Flat with an orchestra under Dr. Damrosch; Edmund Neupert, the Norwegian pianist, who played Grieg's concerto dedicated to himself; and Mme. Emma Nevada November 5, 1885. The Italian violinist, Teresina Tua, was heard there in the 1887-88 season, and Signor Campanini and Mme. Ilma di Murska on return visits. Vladimir de Pachmann and Mme. de Pachmann appeared there in April 1890.
7The Madrigal Singers and Richard Hoffman, who had been playing the Chickering pianoforte for fifty-two years, gave concerts there shortly before the close of the Hall in 1901. Among novelties introduced to New York in Chickering Hall were Theodore Thomas' Festival March, Brahms' Double Concerto, part of Saint-Saens' Samson and Delilah, Beethoven's Ritter-Ballet, Grieg's Autumn Overture and Peer Gynt Suite, Rubinstein's Don Quixote, a suite of Arthur Foote's and Tschaikowsky's Fifth Symphony.
9At various times since 1901 wholesale and retail departments have been established in New York. Once was in connection with Ampico Hall, which was used for several years in the same way as Chickering Hall. At present the building is used by the Knabe Company.
11Artists Endorsing and Using the Chickering Pianofortes
13Endorsers of these instruments were Franz Liszt, Saint Saëns, Gottschalk, Wehle, Gounod, Thalberg, De Pachmann, Carreño, Georg Henschel and von Bülow. Jenny Lind was probably the greatest singer ever heard in the United States when she made her tour in 1850. She was accompanied on the Chickering at her concerts.
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