Word: dimitri
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...sense of timing and sharp, clean cutting. The picture builds from 10:40 a.m. to its high noon climax in a crescendo of ticking clocks, shots of the railroad tracks stretching long and level into the distant hills and of the hushed, deserted streets of Hadleyville. Throughout the action, Dimitri Tiomkin's plaintive High Noon Ballad sounds a recurring note of impending doom...
Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos takes a special pride in performing new music-and old music that is still new to the U.S. Last fall he gave the U.S. its first performance of Atonalist Arnold Schoenberg's 1909 "monodrama," Erwartung (Expectation), and his Manhattan audience seemed to find it considerably less noisy and strident than expected. Columbia Records stepped in quickly, got Mitropoulos, his New York Philharmonic-Symphony and Soprano Dorothy Dow to record it. Erwartung's one-act story is somber, not to say macabre: a woman sings her innermost thoughts as she goes to a woodland tryst, stumbles...
Most of the audience listened with caution in Act I, but by Act II they were applauding enthusiastically. At the end, they gave Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos and the cast ten curtain calls. Further, in a rare personal tribute, a crowd lingered outside to cheer the conductor again after the performance...
...festival directors thought of performing any Russian music? Director Nicholas Nabokov, Russian-born citizen of the U.S., answered with a story that epitomized the whole point of the festival. Nabokov wanted to present part of Dimitri Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of Minsk, the story of a murderous hussy of Czarist days who winds up in Siberia. But the Kremlin had banned Lady Macbeth in 1937, and for that reason Nabokov ran into trouble with his project. Even though the opera was performed at the Metropolitan in 1935, there was no score available in the U.S. Nabokov cabled Artur...
...York City Opera's new director, Joseph Rosenstock, wanted to make a splash with his first new production. He picked just the right high-diving opera to do it with: Alban Berg's 27-year-old atonal masterpiece, Wozzeck. Ever since Dimitri Mitropoulos' stunning concert version in Carnegie Hall last year (TIME. April 23), critics and audiences have been clamoring to see a stage version...