Dedication
TO
ALEXANDER VAN RENSSELAER, Esq.
DEVOTED TO
THE CAUSE OF MUSIC IN THIS CITY
AND
FIRST AND ONLY
PRESIDENT
OF
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
ASSOCIATION
Foreword
This story of the Philadelphia Orchestra has been written during the past few months, for the friends and supporters of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association.
My endeavor has been to give the account in a simple form and to use the Appendix for the statistics which should be recorded at a Twenty-fifth Anniversary.
Frances Anne Wister
October, 1925
Acknowledgments
With much appreciation of their assistance I desire to thank:
The Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association
and
The Women’s Committees for the Philadelphia Orchestra, who have
made it possible to publish this book.
Mr. Arthur Judson, Mr. Louis A. Mattson,
Miss Ruth O’Neill, Miss E. M. Russell
of the Philadelphia Orchestra Office.
Dr. Edward I. Keffer.
Frances Anne Wister
October, 1925
Twenty-five Years
of the
Philadelphia Orchestra
1900-1925