Word: dimitry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dimitri Mitropoulos, tight-lipped conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony, denying rumors that he would replace Serge Koussevitzky as conductor of the Boston Symphony, playfully started a rumor of his own: "I am going to conduct a symphony ... in the Aleutians, and Koussevitzky is going to Berlin...
...Bulgarian liberals doubted that the more important pro-fascist prisoners should be punished. What disturbed them was the fact that three leading Bulgarian democrats and antiFascists were among the defendants. The three: Nikola Mushanoff, Athanase Buroff, Dimitri Gitscheff...
Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, transcribed by Dimitri Mitropoulos (Minneapolis Symphony, Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia; 4 sides). Magnificent Bach effectively if somewhat lushly transcribed. Performance: good. Recording: excellent...
This family's-eye view of genius was written by Son-in-Law Dimitri Marianoff, husband of Einstein's stepdaughter Margot, in collaboration with Writer Palma Wayne. Marianoff, who lived with the Einstein family for eight years, reports that the Einstein home in Princeton is visited by a constant stream of the world's great-statesmen, bankers, diplomats, composers, actors, writers, scientists. Hordes of correspondents from every corner of the world ask him for advice, money, help in scientific problems and personal affairs. He is deluged with gifts, which he almost invariably sends back; he once refused...
...most promising of the remaining U.S. orchestras as the season opened were: the Chicago (Belgian-born Désiré De-fauw succeeded the late Frederick Stock) ; Cleveland (Austrian-born Erich Leinsdorf, formerly of the Metropolitan Opera House, succeeded the Philharmonic's Rodzinski); Minneapolis (Dimitri Mitropoulos) ; San Francisco (Pierre Monteux) ; Cincinnati (Eugene Goossens); St. Louis (Vladimir Golschmann); Detroit (U.S.-born Karl Krueger had managed to pull things together again after the orchestra became the temporary charge of Sam's Cut-Rate, Inc.-TIME, Oct. 19); Los Angeles (U.S.-born Alfred Wallenstein succeeded a string of guests); National Symphony...