From the history of musical criticism

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The first performances of the 5th symphony P.I. Tchaikovsky in the United States was almost unanimously met by hostilely musical criticism. Boston Evening Transcript observer October 24, 1892 wrote:

"It is not clear about Tchaikovsky’s fifth symphony ... In the final we have the wild rage of Cossacks, falling up for atrocities, against the backdrop of barren Russian steppes. The fierce final part sounds, as if the hordes of demons are in the stream of Brendi, the music is becoming drunk and drunk. Hell scenes, white fever, indecent and, above all, damn noise!"

The reaction in New York was not much better. The observer "Musical Courier" wrote on March 13, 1889:

"In the fifth symphony of Tchaikovsky ... in vain you are looking for consistency and homogeneity ... In the last part, the Kalmyk blood of the composer defeated him and the massacre, heavy and bloody, swept through a stormy score."