Word: dimitry
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...badly need a subsidy," New York Philharmonic-Symphony Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos told the National Music Council last week. With subscriptions off and endowments shrinking "because the rich people are disappearing," the Philharmonic, like many another symphony society, seemed to be righting a losing battle against growing deficits...
Master's Touch. With Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting members of his New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Szigeti gave his sell-out audience four works for violin and orchestra-and nothing else, a rare program for the U.S. (though not for European audiences). He opened with the clear, forthright Corelli suite La Folia; then came the Brahms Violin Concerto, followed by Portrait No. 1, an early work of his late Hungarian compatriot and friend Bela Bartok, and finally the Beethoven Concerto...
Last week a distinguished musical family made Bach's D Minor Concerto a family affair. Famed French Pianist Robert Casadesus (rhymes with has a canoe) first broached the idea of playing the concerto with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony to Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos last spring. Mitropoulos was "enthused." He knew that Robert's wife Gaby, a first-rate pianist in her own right who often performs two-piano works with her husband, would play one of the pianos. The third pianist, Casadesus announced with pride, would be his son Jean, of course...
...York Philharmonic performs under the direction of Dimitri Metropoules at 2:30 p.m. today and at 2:45 p.m. Sunday at Carnegie Hall...
Booster Shot. In one way, 54-year-old Dimitri Mitropoulos is just the man to give the Philharmonic a booster shot. No prima donna, he has tried to win his musicians with consideration (he does not want to be dictator, he says, but president of a republic), and by giving them the first feeling of security they have enjoyed in years. Last week all of last season's players were back in their chairs...