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Greek-born Dimitri Mitropoulos, maestro of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, familiarized himself with the instruments of a Red Cross mobile blood-collecting unit. Touring Minnesota with the unit between concerts, he sometimes doffed the rubber gloves of an orderly to draw crowds with his piano playing-both long-hair and boogie-woogie...
Prokofieff: Classical Symphony (St. Louis Symphony, Vladimir Golschmann conducting; Victor; 4 sides). The deftest work of modern "neoclassicism" (in which composers play with the mannerisms of Corelli's period) is given a performance not quite as neat as Dimitri Mitropoulos' splendid version (Columbia...
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 ("Scotch") (Minneapolis Symphony, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia; 8 sides). Savory roasting of a melodious chestnut...
Borodin: Symphony No. 2 (Minneapolis Symphony, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia; 8 sides). The most popular of Borodin's exhilarating, lightweight Slavic symphonies handsomely played but harshly recorded...
...Conductors Koussevitzky, Beecham and Walter were all in their 60s, and Conductor Toscanini was 75. The directors decided on a younger man, hesitated over the name of Dimitri Mitropoulos, glabrous Greek conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony, and finally gave the job to the less brilliant, much tougher, 49-year-old Rodzinski...