According to the New York Times, Dmitri Shostakovich, who was in New York to attend the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, attended this concert. He sat in Box 3 in the First Tier. Grutzner, Charles. "Police Lift all Restrictions on Culture Meeting Pickets." New York Times (1923-Current file) Mar 25 1949: 1. ProQuest. 22 Oct. 2013. U.S. PREMIERE of Andrzej Panufnik's TRAGIC OVERTURE NEW YORK PREMIERE of Virgil Thomson's WHEATFIELD AT NOON