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...most casual concertgoers, the Philharmonic has sounded ragged for the past two years, and the impression grew that nobody seemed to care. Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, 60, a man of great good will and enormous gifts, tolerated sloppy playing-possibly demoralized because the Philharmonic's board often failed to support him in performing modern music, the kind he likes best. The orchestra members, working too hard and denied a hand in policymaking, felt like underpaid hired help. And Manager Judson could not escape his share of the blame. Throughout his remarkable career, Judson had treated music as a business, usually...
World Music Festivals (Sun. 2 :05 p.m., CBS). Part II, Salzburg Festival. Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Karl Boehm, Dimitri Mitropoulos...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts, Tossy Spivakovsky plays Sibelius' Violin Concerto in D Minor...
...Leon Kirchner's Piano Concerto, the week's toughest nut, which the composer played with the Philharmonic Symphony, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos. It was romantic in its delicate, lyrical episodes, its sudden, violent climaxes, and the virtuosic intent of its solo part. It contained, as does all of Brooklyn-born Kirchner's music, many ideas of ear-bending originality that made flashes of beauty in a dark atmosphere. There were so many, in fact, that the listener became worn down before it was over...
...Among its advisers: Performers Raymond Massey and Lillian Gish, Poets W. H. Auden and Marianne Moore, Conductors Charles Munch and Dimitri Mitropoulos, Painter Robert Motherwell...