Template:Did you know nominations/American premieres of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:32, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

American premieres of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7

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Shostakovich in his firefighting uniform, 1941

• ... 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)
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Catherine de Parthenay
  • Comment: QPQ coming soon. I got a few more ALTs too...

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Overall: @CurryTime7-24: Good article. Waiting on a QPQ. Onegreatjoke (talk) 03:06, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

• Some more ALTs, just in case:
  • ALT2: ... that after the American broadcast premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7, the New York Daily News called one of the work's themes a "crazy little tune" akin to Fats Waller's "Ain't Misbehavin'"? Source: [1]
  • ALT3: ... that on the day of the American broadcast premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 in 1942, Louella Parsons reported that a film adaptation of the work was being considered? Source: [2]
• Onegreatjoke? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 22:33, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Approve. Onegreatjoke (talk) 16:12, 19 July 2023 (UTC)