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1930-31年、1931-32年の2シーズン、渡米してニューヨーク・フィルハーモニックを指揮しています。
伝記には次のように書かれています。(John Russell:"Erich Kleiber a memoir" p.246から引用)

In 1930, and again in the following year, Kleiber went to New York for six to seven weeks and gave between twenty and thirty concerts. (中略) But there is no point in disguising the fact that on the whole he disliked conducting in the U.S.A., where musical life seemed to him to have an industrial quality that was inimical to his own particular methods. (The American concert system is a wheel on which more than one good European conductor has been broken.)

この時の演奏記録は以下の通りです。

•1930-1931年シーズンの演奏記録
•1931-1932年シーズンの演奏記録

ニューヨーク・フィルハーモニックのウェブ・サイトに以前に掲載されていた記事によると1930年10月5日(日曜日)のコンサートは、はじめて全米にラジオ生中継されたとのことです。(以下、該当記事から引用 This Month in Philharmonic History -New York Philharmonic web site-)

October 1930
When Erich Kleiber conducted the New York Philharmonic on October 5, 1930, he and the Orchestra made history twice: Kleiber made his American conducting debut, and that performance became the first coast-to-coast broadcast ever of a live symphony concert.

That Sunday afternoon's performance of Weber, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky was captured by a single microphone and transmitted to 53 CBS-affiliated stations across the nation, inaugurating a tradition of New York Philharmonic coast-to-coast radio broadcasts that is still going strong more than 70 years later.

また、同記事には当時、楽団員が描いたスケッチが掲載されていました。

Erich Kleiber, 1930. Sketch, dedicated by the conductor to Orchestra Personnel Manager Maurice Van Praag, is presumed to be by Frederick Zimmerman, a bass player in the Orchestra from 1930-1966.