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Many a Hollywood movie lacks a real theme, but practically every movie these days has a theme song. The man on top of the trend is Dimitri Tiomkin, a 54-year-old concert pianist turned composer, who made a deep impression on the industry and the rest of the U.S. with one folksy tune: Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling (from High Noon...
...Samoa. Unlike many other Hollywoodians at large in the South Seas, Director Mark Robson never permits his camera to leer at the native girls as if they were so many Dorothy Lamours, but tells the story with a simple directness that matches the islanders' disarming ways. And Composer Dimitri Tiomkin has written a haunting melody that should do as well as his High Noon theme on the juke boxes, even if it is not up to South Pacific...
BEST CONDUCTOR: 1) Arturo Toscanini, 2) Dimitri Mitropoulos, 3) Charles Munch...
Last week the Herald Tribune's shy, scholarly Critic Arthur Berger, 40, took his biggest leap: his Ideas of Order, a twelve-minute orchestral piece inspired by poems of Wallace Stevens, got its premiere from the Philharmonic-Symphony, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos. The music had Stravinsky-like touches: nervous rhythms, clean, cool sonorities, a three-note theme scattered among instruments and pitch levels. But, in the richness of sound and in the three brief but searing climaxes, it was clear that Berger had a style...
Conductor Chardon, a onetime associate conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony, under Dimitri Mitropoulos, now has a fully professional ensemble for his three-month season. Orlando, the only U.S. city under 100,000 to support such an expensive orchestra, is pleased as punch with his results. It hopes to double its budget soon, and confidently expects that, before too long, its orchestra will rank among the best dozen...