On Friday and Saturday, 6-7 November 1931, Ormandy concluded his two weeks substituting for Toscanini by conducting the orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony no. 7, Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, and Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. Immediately following the Saturday concert, Ormandy took a train west. According to a 1969 interview with Ormandy, "On the Saturday train I went to Chicago, from there the following day to Minneapolis, and Monday morning arrived at seven o'clock, and at ten o'clock I was on the stage conducting the Minneapolis Symphony." Four days later, on Friday, 13 November 1931, he conducted the orchestra in a program including the Egmont Overture, Tchaikovsky's Symphony no. 4, songs by Mozart and Richard Strauss with guest artist Elizabeth Schumann, and the piece that would become Ormandy's signature work in Minneapolis, the "Polka and Fugue" from Schwanda the Bagpiper, which he had introduced to his Philadelphia audience two weeks earlier.