Word: dimitry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 (Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). A slightly vapid piece of music, but with vague whisperings of the strivings and yearnings which burst out in the composer's Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Symphonies. Performance: fair...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Mozart's Don Giovanni Overture, Sibelius' Symphony in D Major, No, 2, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier Suite. Conductor: Dimitri Mitropoulos...
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting and at the piano; Columbia, 6 sides). An early opus-started in 1917, completed in 1921-which lacks the composer's later lyricism, is difficult to play and almost as difficult to take. Performance: good...
Obviously the Philharmonic would use Walter's year shopping for a permanent conductor. Next year's guest conductors were the apparent favorites in the race: Minneapolis' Dimitri Mitropoulos, Cleveland's George Szell, Paris' Charles Munch and Hollywood Bowl's Leopold Stokowski. All but Stokowski (who once was) are clients of music's Mr. Big, Arthur Judson, the Philharmonic's manager. Judson thus had a firmer hold on the throne than before Rodzinski abdicated (TIME...
Perhaps the most startled author of the week was brooding Eugene O'Neill. He has "Seraphic Sex Appeal," an artists' agent named Leora Thompson told the press. She put him in a special beauty class with Symphony Maestro Dimitri Mitropoulos, Tyrone Power, General Omar Bradley, and Irving Berlin. "It seems like a light from the cosmos shines in their eyes," said she. "Sanctified sex is what it really...