From Mrs. Roosevelt’s column "My Day" for Oct. 21, 1958: "I went the other night to a concert in Carnegie Hall
and heard the works of three American composers, Riegger, Becker and
Ruggles, whom are not very often heard [sic]. And the finale of the concert
was Rachmaninoff’s piano concerto No. 3 for piano and orchestra, in
which Mr. Van Cliburn was the pianist and Leonard Bernstein the
conductor…. Leonard Bernstein is one of my favorite people, as
well as a gifted conductor, and I liked the way he introduced the
American composers who were unfamiliar to me. I will have to say that
because of that the Rachmaninoff was somewhat of a relief because I did
not feel I was trying to understand something new. Nevertheless, the
music of the American composers, though unfamiliar to me, had moments
of beauty and meaning for me."