New York Philharmonic 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 symphony orchestra performance 1949-03-24T20:45:00