1897-8. The Damrosch-Ellis Opera Company gave grand opera throughout the country with artists including Melba, Nordica, Gadski, soprani; van Cauteren and Mattfeld, contralti; Kraus, Salignac, Rothmühl and Ibos, tenors; Stehman, Fischer, and Boudouresque, basses.
1898. Jan. 7. Hugo Kaun's "Festival March and Hymn" given by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
1898. Jan. 8. Siegfried Wagner's symphonic poem "Sehnsucht" given by the Philharmonic Society in New York City.
1898. Jan. 8. Production of C.M. Loeffler's dramatic poem, "La mort de Tintagiles" by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
1898. Jan. 14. Hugo Kaun's Symphony in D minor given by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
1898. Jan. 15. Paganini's "Caprice" for violin, in A minor, given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
1898. Jan. 25. American début of Alexander Siloti, famous Russian pianist, as a concert given by Anton Seidl at the Astoria, New York City.
1898. Jan. 27. Production of Gustav Strube's overture for trumpets, horns, tuba and kettledrums, at a concert of the Apollo Club in Boston.
1898. Jan. 27. Dubois's Concerto for Violin, in D minor, given by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with Henri Marteau as soloist.
1898. Jan. 29. César Franck's symphonic poem "The Wild Huntsman" given at Cincinnati, O., by Theodore Thomas.