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Refined Art. Beyond all that, a conductor has to be alert to troubles within his orchestra. Men who have gone too far in an effort to make music a democracy (as Charles Munch did in Boston and Dimitri Mitropoulos did before he was shooed away from New York in 1958) may find themselves watching helplessly as their musicians betray them in a thousand ways. The New York Philharmonic has made a refined art of ignoring any inept visitors among the conductors who substitute for Leonard Bernstein each year: the players keep all eyes studiously away from the podium in hopes...
...successes, its career has been scarred by long periods of turbulence. Seven seasons under the pleasant direction of Dimitri Mitropoulos dimmed its luster, with audience, musicians and critics all bickering over the orchestra's wayward course. When Bernstein took over in 1958, the Philharmonic began to recapture the audience that it had not had since its "Golden Era" under Toscanini in the '30s. As the only American-born conductor of a major U.S. orchestra, Bernstein brought the Philharmonic new esprit and quieted its cranky audience. But soon his St. Vitus conducting technique upset even his fans; to many...
Also elected were Dimitri S. Villard '64, of Eliot House and Geneva, Switzerland, public relations director; Perez C. Ehrich '64, of Adams House and Arlington, Vt., advertising manager; Joseph T. Ryan '66, of Thayer Hall and Manchester, subscription manager; and Phillip M. Howe, '66, of Thayer Hall and Newton Center, circulation manager...
...Dimitri, summering at Yalta, meets Anna, a sad-faced beauty who promenades every day along the quay with her little white spitz, Ralph. Dimitri has a wife, a pince-nezed intellectual, back in Moscow; Anna's husband is a foppish flunky in Saratov. As they become friends and lovers, Anna's unhappiness and self-recrimination grow stronger: Dimitri at length returns to Moscow to face the winter and his wife's domineering. Then, aboard a tram one day, he sees a little white dog go scampering through the snowy streets...
Realizing that he must see Anna, Dimitri travels to Saratov and meets her at the opera furtively between the acts. She promises to come to Moscow to see him. Their encounters thereafter, in her drab hotel room, are filled with the sadness of the fate that brought them together too late. "We are like two migrating birds," says Anna, "caught and put into separate cages...