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TOUR OF ARTHUR NIKISCH AND

THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

AND CANADA

8-28 APRIL 1912

Nikisch LSO Tour 1912 Title Page

ITINERARY

 

 

8 April: New York, Carnegie Hall

9 April: Boston, Symphony Hall

10 April: New York, Carnegie Hall

11 April: Philadelphia, Metropolitan House

12 April: Washington D.C. (matinée)

12 April: Baltimore (night), Lyric Theater

13 April: Pittsburg, Exposition Music Hall

14 April: Cleveland, Hippodrome

15 April: Chicago, Auditorium

16 April: St Louis, Coliseum

17 April: Kansas City, Convention Hall

18 April: Wichita, New Forum

19 April: Des Moines, Coliseum (matinée)

19 April: Des Moines, Coliseum (evening)

20 April: Madison, Wisonsin (matinee), University of Wisconsin

20 April: Milwaukee (night), Auditorium

21 April: Chicago (matinée), Auditorium

22 April: Oxford, Ohio (matinee), Miami University

22 April: Cincinnati (night), Emery Auditorium

23 April: Toledo (matinée), The Valentine

23 April: Detroit (night), Light Guard Armory

24 April: Buffalo, Convention Hall

25 April: Toronto, Massey Hall

26 April: Ottawa (matinée), Russell Theater

26 April: Montreal (night), Arena

27 April: Boston (matinée), Symphony Hall

27 April: Providence (night), Infantry Hall

28 April: New York (to be announced)

Nikisch LSO Tour 1912 George V letter

Concert  Programs For 8-11 & 17 April 1912

 

8 April 1912  New York: Carnegie Hall

 

Overture “Leonora no.3”                                                                                      Beethoven

Symphony in C minor No.1                                                                                      Brahms

Symphonic Poem Francesca da Rimini                                                             Tchaikovsky

Overture: Tannhäuser                                                                                                Wagner

 

9 April 1912  Boston, Symphony Hall

 

Overture: Egmont                                                                                                 Beethoven

Symphony no.6 “Pathetique”                                                                            Tchaikovsky

Prelude and Liebestod “Tristan and Isolde”                                                              Wagner

Waldweben “Siegfried”                                                                                             Wagner

Overture: Meistersinger                                                                                             Wagner

 

10 April 1912  New York, Carnegie Hall

 

Overture: Oberon                                                                                                         Weber

Symphony in C minor no.5                                                                                   Beethoven

Overture: “Flying Dutchman”                                                                                   Wagner

Tone Poem, “Don Juan”                                                                                             Strauss

Hungarian Rhapsody in F no.1                                                                                      Liszt

 

11 April 1912  Philadelphia, Metropolitan House

 

Overture: Leonora no.3                                                                                         Beethoven

Symphony no.6 “Pathetique”                                                                            Tchaikovsky

Vorspiel and Liebestod “Tristan and Isolda”                                                            Wagner

Overture: Tannhäuser                                                                                                Wagner

 

17 April 1912  Kansas City, Convention Hall

 

Overture: Leonora no.3                                                                                         Beethoven

Symphony no.6 “Pathetique”                                                                            Tchaikovsky

Vorspiel and Liebestod “Tristan and Isolda”                                                            Wagner

Tone Poem: Don Juan                                                                                                Strauss

Hungarian Rhapsody in F no.1                                                                                      Liszt

 

I am very grateful to Richard Kittrell for all information regarding the 1912 US and Canadian tour which is taken from an original souvenir program of the tour.

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