1909. Dec. 14. American début of Jeanne Maubourg in "Madame Angot" at the New Theatre, New York City.

1909. Dec. 16. Mahler's First Symphony given by the Philharmonic Society in New York City.

1909. Dec. 23. Gluck's opera "Orfeo ed Eurydice" presented at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, with Homer, Gadski, Alson, Gluck. Toscanini conducting.

1909. Dec. Henry K. Hadley appointed conductor of the Seattle (Wash.) Symphony Orchestra.

1910. Jan. 5. Liza Lehmann, noted song-writer, gave her first concert in America at Symphony Hall, Boston, Mass.

1910. Jan. 5. Production of Wm. Berwald's "Dramatic Overture" by the New York Symphony Orchestra, Walter Damrosch, conductor, at Syracuse, N. Y.

1910. Jan. 7. H. K. Hadley's "Symphonic Fantasia" produced by the Symphony Orchestra in St. Louis, Mo.

1910. Jan. 10. Massenet's opera "Griselidis" given at the Manhattan Opera House, New York City.

1910. Jan. 18. P. Volbach's Symphony in B minor given by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.

1910. Jan. 23. Franchetti's opera "Germania" given at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, with Emmy Destinn, Caruso, and Amato in the leading parts.