Adolph M. Foerster’s orchestral composition American Ode, op. 81, was published in 1922. The manuscript full score in the composer’s hand indicates that the work premiered at the Pittsburg Exposition on September 23, 1913, by the Russian Symphony Orchestra under conductor Modeste Altschuler.
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