The musical season now closing has witnessed at least one singular noveltyhissing. It is common enough in Europe for people to hiss a piece of music that they don't like, but Americans heretofore have been too decorous or too unconcerned to express their preferences in any such graphic manner. It is that cacophonious modernist, Schoenberg, who has brought hissing to America. In the height of the season the Philadelphia orchestra journeyed to New York, and gave Schoenberg's Kammersymphonie. At the close some hand-clapping sounded in the audience, but also a far stranger...
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