1906. Oct. 15. Production of F. S. Converse's incidental music to Percy Mackaye's play "Jeanne d'Arc," given by Sothern and Julia Marlowe in Philadelphia.

1906. Oct. 15. Puccini's opera "Madame Butterfly" presented by the Henry Savage Opera Company (in English) at Washington, D. C.

1906. Oct. Vassily Safonof appointed conductor of the Philharmonic Society, New York City.

1906. Nov. 3. Saint-Saëns's fantasia "Africa" for pianoforte and orchestra given by the Symphony Society in New York City with the composer as soloist.

1906. Nov. 12. Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly" given by the Savage Opera Company in Washington, D. C.

1906. Nov. 15. Glazunof's "Scène Dansante" given by the Russian Symphony Orchestra in New York City.

1906. Nov. 20. American début of F. Constantino, tenor, also Fely Dereyne, Riccardo Martin, and A. Segurola, with the San Carlo Opera Company in New Orleans, La.

1906. Nov. 26. American operatic debut of Geraldine Farrar, soprano, as Juliette in Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette" at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City.

1906. Nov. 27. Elgar's cantata "The Banner of St. George" given at a Musurgia Concert, at Carnegie Hall, New York City, with the assistance of one hundred members of the Brooklyn Oratorio Society.

1906. Nov. 30. J. Sibelius's Violin Concerto in D minor given by the Philharmonic Society, New York City, with Maud Powell as soloist.