Word: dimitri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony, took a vacation. To pinch hit for Maestro Koussevitzky the orchestra's board of directors picked an obscure, lean, bald-headed Greek named Dimitri Mitropoulos. Boston's Brahmins, who thought all Greeks ran lunch wagons, had never heard of Conductor Mitropoulos. At the way he bounded to his place on the stage and went into action, they turned pale with alarm...
Married. Her Serene Highness, Princess Romanovskaya-Ilyinskaya (née Audrey Emery), 35, daughter of Cincinnati's multimillionaire Leather Tycoon John Josiah Emery, divorced wife of Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia (co-assassin of Rasputin); and Prince Dimitri ("Mito") Djordjadze, Georgian prince and racing motorist; in Maidstone, England...
...Amfitheatrof opened the present season of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra as associate conductor under Dimitri Mitropoulis...
...State Symphony Orchestra (WPA) under the direction of Alexander Thiede is giving a concert in Sanders Theatre tonight. Ernest Bioch's Concerto Grosso is to be played and should prove to be the most interesting item. Dimitri Mitropoulos continues as guest conductor of the Boston Symphony and a presenting for this week his own arrangement of the Prelude and Fugue for Organ in B minor, Schumann's Second Symphony, a new Piano Concerto by Malipiero, and Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole...
...Dimitri Mitropoulos, the Athenian conductor, is for the second season the mid-winter guest conductor of the Boston Symphony, and will lead the orchestra in Sanders Theatre tomorrow evening as well as the concerts of Friday, Saturday, and Monday in Boston. He will be remembered for the excellent impression which he made last year and for his unusual methods of conducting which include some extraordinary vertical manoeveurs...