Word: dimitry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of Minnesota, addicts of Beat Me Daddy Eight to a Bar, Scrub Me Mamma With a Boogie Beat, etc. got a university charter for a Boogie Woogie Club. At its first meeting, 300 students heard a new tune, Beat Me Dimitri- tribute to Conductor Mitropoulos of the Minneapolis Symphony...
...Dimitri Mitropoulos thus went through the second week of a month's spell as guest conductor of the Philharmonic. This 44-year-old Greek had been summoned from Minneapolis, whose symphony he has conducted for three years, while the Philharmonic's floppy-haired John Barbirolli-a British subject of Italian-French parentage-went westward, guest-conducting on his own. After recent critical blasts at Barbirolli's spiritless stick-waving (TIME, Dec. 9), veiled comparisons and references to Greek v. Italian were inevitable. Almost unanimously the critics handed Conductor Mitropoulos the decision. Thanks to him, the Philharmonic...
...Minneapolis, which turns out the biggest weekly symphonic audience in the U. S. - as many as 5,000 people in enormous Northrop Auditorium - pays Mitro poulos a big salary as such things go: $25,000 a year. His present contract ex pires at the end of this season. Dimitri Mitropoulos lives simply, avoids parties, prefers the movies or the company of orchestramen. Twice last week he tele phoned Minneapolis, said he missed the boys and disliked Manhattan's whirl...
...which invaded the popular field with Bing Crosby and a 35? disc, also repressed, at 50? to $1, a great many foreign recordings. Columbia, most of whose twelve-inch symphonic discs remained at $1.50, began improving its product mechanically, lately signed up such topnotchers as the Minneapolis Symphony under Dimitri Mitropoulos, the Chicago Symphony under Frederick Stock, the Cleveland Orchestra under Artur Rodzinski. Likewise U. S. Records (run by Eli Oberstein, onetime Victor executive) produced a collection of classical recordings, not of the best mechanically but attractively priced...
...days life for St. Petersburg's upper crust was a wild melee of tempestuous music and passionate romance. From these Director Dreville has compounded "Kreutzer Sonata." As in Tolstoy's story the characters are carefree debauchees who tinkle champagne glasses to Beethoven's music. Thus Jean Yonnel, as Dimitri Pozdnycheff the irrestible rake, makes eyes at his creditor's wife while that gentleman removes the furniture, and reforms by going home to make love to the country lasses. American tabloid readers can fill in the rest of the plot: true love, questioned virtue, and a scheming horse-faced violinist...