Today R. writes five pages of the score [1], there being no rehearsal. Annoyance with our friend Feustel, who has not gone to Herr Erlanger, and reports that “the situation is dangerous, though not without hope!” —
We drive out with R.; Berlin pleases him better than Vienna. Astonishment at the Palace, erected for a city of twenty thousand people! — — In the evening a visit from our friend Mimi.
[1] Die Partitur für den „American Centennial March“.
Revised English translation by Jo Cousins [© Jo Cousins | WAGNER Salon]