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I heard the Classical Symphony for the first time when Koussevitzky conducted it in Paris in 1927.

All musical Paris was there.

Some musicians were enthusiastic, some skeptical.

I myself was one of the skeptics ( 35 years ago ).

I remember Ernest Bloch in the foyer, shouting in his high-pitched voice: `` it may be a tour de force, mais mon Dieu, can anyone take this music seriously ''??