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Mozart: Concerto In E Flat Major for two pianos and orchestra (Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin with the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Mozart composed this bright piece for his two-piano concerts with Josepha Aurnhammer (of whom he wrote: "The young lady is a fright but plays enchantingly"). Performance: excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Nov. 25, 1946 | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

Putting two Brahms concertos on one program started as a gag last winter between Arrau and Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, who directed the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra for the concert last week. At intermission, Arrau gulped down gobs of milk, afterwards wolfed a big steak. Said he: "It turned out not just a joke." This week, after hopping up to the Berkshires for a concert at Tanglewood, and to Manhattan for a Lewisohn Stadium appearance, he will take his first vacation in five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Two for the Price of One | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

Rachmaninoff's Isle of the Dead, Opus 29 (M M 599) is the composer's symphonic interpretation of Arnold Boecklin's painting of the same name. Its almost pathological mourning is excellently portrayed by Dimitri Mitropoulos and the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, whose interpretation of Rachmaninoff is slightly more authentic than Koussevitzky's, which was released during the winter, Recording is fairly good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

First Prince Dimitri tried, but he fell asleep. Prince Vasily fell asleep too. But Prince Ivan snatched one feather from the Firebird's tail as she tore herself from his grasp. "This feather was so marvelously bright that when it was placed in a dark room it made the whole room shine as if it were lit up by many candles. King Vyslav put the feather in his study as a keepsake, to be treasured forever." But the King still wanted the Firebird taken alive. So prince Ivan rode in search...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mouse & Moujik | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

Rimsky-Korsalcoff: Suite from Le Coq d'Or (Minneapolis Symphony Or chestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). Orchestral arrange ments of choice morsels from a pompously inflated opera. Performance: excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Nov. 5, 1945 | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

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