[156] President of the Music Hall Company of New York, upon whose initiative Tchaikovsky had been engaged in America.
[157] The head of the Knabe Pianoforte Manufactory.
[158] This hall was built principally with the help of Mr. Carnegie. Tchaikovsky was invited to the opening festivities.
[159] Walter Damrosch, son of the founder of the “Symphony Society” in New York, one of the directors of the Music Hall Company of New York, and conductor of the Symphony Concerts and of the opera.
[160] A. Carnegie, the greatest ironmaster in America, perhaps in the world; orator, author, politician; a most generous benefactor and founder of many schools, libraries and museums.
[161] Francis Hyde, Director of the Trust Company, and President of the New York Philharmonic Society.
[162] A representative from the firm of Knabe.
[163] This would have been an impossible athletic feat, probably the equivalent in notes is intended.—R. N.
[164] “Christ is risen”—a Russian Easter greeting.
[165] “Legend” and “Our Father.”