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...played its repertory almost to death (the sound-effects man completely wore out his taxi horn on Gershwin's An American in Paris), and at some performances the concert hall all but emptied for good at intermission time. But the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos got the ear of General William M. Hoge, Commander...
Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika, nearing the end of their month-long marathon around the U.S., popped up unannounced in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, where they beamed from a box while Greek-born Dimitri Mitropoulos conducted the New York Philharmonic. After the concert, the King awarded Maestro Mitropoulos the decoration of Commander of the Royal Order of the Phoenix. As photographers' flashbulbs went off, the Queen, by now used to the chin-up-and-smile orders barked at her, complied expertly, quipped to the picture-takers: "You'd think we'd been trained...
...Ground manages to generate a clumsy, convincing power. But not many ex-soldiers are likely to concede that 16 weeks of basic training -even under such a superman as Widmark-would result in the superbly trained and conditioned squad that marches offscreen, at the picture's end, to Dimitri Tiomkin's heroic music...
Toast of the Town (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Dimitri Mitropoulos and 34 pianists...
...this business," says Tiomkin, "they begin to follow with these ideas. First Dore Schary called on account of High Noon and said. 'Dimitri, I need song from could be good infantry march.' " Tiomkin wrote Take the High Ground and Hold It for MGM's Take the High Ground. Then he composed the theme for Return to Paradise...