Word: dimitry
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Symphony Orchestra seemed unwilling to give full-conductor powers to anybody else. Staggered by guest conductors and triumvirates, the U.S.'s oldest (108 years) and once finest orchestra lost much of its poise and polish. Last spring the directors finally overcame their hesitation, picked Minneapolis' Greek-born Dimitri Mitropoulos, who shared the season with Leopold Stokowski last year...
Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos was pleased at the prospect. Said he: "A great orchestra keeps in top form only by performance." He Was also hopeful of making a few symphony converts among Tyrone Power fans: "A conductor is a bit of a missionary...
...flaws are such minor ones as Dimitri Tiomkin's musical score, which is so overexcited that it sometimes gets in the way of the action. Director Fred (The Search) Zinneman's sensitive work clearly places him in the first rank of screen directors. The film is full of fine performances, especially by Actors Sloane and Webb and Actress Wright. Broadway's Marlon Brando, in his first movie appearance, does a magnificent job. His halting, mumbled delivery, glowering silences and expert simulation of paraplegia do not suggest acting at all; they look chillingly like the real thing...
Sessions: Symphony No. 2 (the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia, 2 sides LP). A powerful and highly individualistic statement of confusion, which is somewhat hard on the ears. Performance and recording: good...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Conductor: Dimitri Mitropoulos...