Word: dimitry
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tuition scholarship, the Harvey Gaul Prize, Philadelphia's Eurydice Chorus award and a $500 BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) prize for a woodwind trio. He also set to work on an orchestral piece called Sinfonia Sacra, submitted it to the annual George Gershwin Memorial Contest. The judges: Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, Musicologist Carleton Sprague Smith, Composers Aaron Copland, Morton Gould and Peter Mennin...
Dame Myra Hess, 65, gave a standout performance of Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1 (the one supposedly too heroic for women to attempt) with the Philharmonic-Symphony, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos (a mere...
...originally trained as a ballet dancer, did not make it seem any better as she determinedly stripped to her white petticoat. Otherwise, Salome emerged as the great opera it is, its nervous, passionate music brilliantly conducted by another newcomer to the Met, the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's Dimitri Mitropoulos. With his long arms and shiny bald head making him look like a gnome in the orchestra pit, he turned the Met orchestra into a raging, powerful instrument that swept the action along at peak excitement...
Married. Sylvia, Lady Ashley, 44, London chorus girl turned socialite; and Prince Dimitri Djordjadze, 53, imperial Russian cavalryman turned Manhattan hotel executive (the Ambassador) ; she for the fifth time (among her others: Douglas Fairbanks Sr.; Clark Gable), he for the third; in Fort...
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 (Leningrad Philharmonic conducted by Eugene Mravinsky on Concert Hall; New York Philharmonic-Symphony conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos on Columbia). The latest symphony by Russia's Dmitry Shostakovich performed by the orchestras that gave the work its world and U.S. premieres respectively. The Americans, for all their dazzling virtuosity, sound less Russian than the Russians, but both recordings make the work sound stronger and more cohesive than it does in concert...