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... that news coverage preceding the American premieres of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 was described as a "great fever of war-hysterical publicity"? Source: "The thickest aura and the loudest Babel—a true international Babel this time, in many tongues—have surrounded the Seventh ('Leningrad') Symphony, ever since the composer's autograph score was microfilmed and flown to New York by way of Teheran and Cairo in a great fever of war-hysterical publicity, for performance under Arturo Toscanini." ("Shostakovich and Us" by Richard Taruskin in Shostakovich in Context, p. 17)
ALT1: ... that years after premiering Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 in the US, Arturo Toscanini asked if he had really learned and conducted "such junk"? Source: "Years later, while listening to his NBC performance of [Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7], Toscanini allegedly asked, 'Did I really learn and conduct such junk?'" (Arturo Toscanini: The NBC Years by Mortimer H. Frank, p. 66)