1903. Nov. 28. E. Dohnanyi's Symphony in D minor given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
1903, Nov. 30. Carl Busch's cantata "King Olaf" produced by the Apollo Musical Club of Chicago. H. M. Wild, conductor.
1903. Dec. 8. Bruno Oscar Klein's Suite for violoncello and orchestra, in F, given by the Philharmonic Society, New York City.
1903. Dec. 10. Debussy's lyric poem "La Demoiselle Élue" given at a concert of the pupils of Madame Salisbury, in Boston, with Helen Allen Hunt as soloist, and Heinrich Gebhardt, pianist. A full performance with orchestra was given by the Cecilia Society April 4, 1905, when Isabelle Bouton and Bertha Cushing Child were soloists.
1903. Dec. 18. Cowen's "Indian Rhapsody" given by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
1903. Dec. 24. First performance in German, outside of Bayreuth, of Wagner's "Parsifal" given by the Metropolitan Opera Company, New York City, under Heinrich Conried, with Milka Ternina as Kundry; Alois Burgstaller as Parsifal; Anton Van Rooy as Amfortas; Robert Blass as Gurnemanz; Marcel Journet as Titurel; Otto Goritz as Klingsor, and Alfred Hertz conductor.
1903. Dec. 26. G. Schumann's "Variationen und Doppelfuge" given by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
1903. Dec. Edythe Walker, contralto, made her American début at the Metropolitan Opera House, in "Aïda."
1903-4. Guest conductors of the Philharmonic Society of New York City:
| Edouard Colonne | of Paris, France |
| Gustav F. Kogel | of Frankfort am Main, Germany |
| Henry J. Wood | of London, England |
| Victor Herbert | of Pittsburgh, Pa. |
| Felix Weingartner | of Munich, Bavaria |
| Vasili Safonof | of Moscow, Russia |
| Richard Strauss | of Berlin, Germany |