Journeys to the United States

route to New York

Helsinki (train) – Turku (boat) – Stockholm (train) – Malmö (ferry) – Copenhagen (train ferry) – Kiel (train) – Hamburg – Bremen – Bremerhafen (s.s. Kaiser Wilhelm II) – Southampton – Cherbourg – New York.

New York (train) – Norfolk – Boston – Norfolk (motor car) – Syracusa – Rochester – Buffalo – Niagara Falls – New York (train) – New Haven (Yale) – New York.

Accommodation

Hotel Essex New Yor,
White House, Norfolk
Hotel Touraine, Boston

Return route

New York (s.s. President Grant) – Plymouth – Cherbourg – Hamburg (train) – Kiel (train ferry) – Copenhagen (ferry) – Malmö (train) – Stockholm (boat) – Turku (train) – Helsinki.

Sibelius conducted a wide selection of his music – including the first public performance of The Oceanides – at the Norfolk Music Festival. He travelled in the United States as the guest of Carl Stoeckel. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Yale University.