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...Oregon-born brothers, Alex and David Tamkin, finished an operatic version in 1933. Met Conductor Artur Bodanzky saw it and liked it, but died before he could get it produced. Over the years, The Dybbuk inhabited several other composers, among them Hollywood's Dimitri Tiomkin. Two years ago, excerpts from the Tamkin work were presented in Portland, Ore. Last season the New York City Opera scheduled a production, but postponed it "for economy." Last week the Tamkin Dybbuk finally found fulfillment, and Manhattan's City Center Theater was packed for the world premi...
...Dimitri Mitropoulos, the Philharmonic's permanent conductor, took command for the second performance. Britons watched him with amazement. In characteristic Mitropoulos style, he used no baton, conducted with elbows, fists, hunched shoulders and lean-faced grimaces. After the first half of the program (Beethoven's Coriolanus overture and Symphony No. 4), Britons exchanged dismayed reactions in the lobby: "What an extraordinary way to conduct! Did you see the way he jigged during the vivace...
...Lewisohn Stadium Concerts, Manhattan: Joseph Szigeti, Dorothy Kirsten, Claudio Arrau, Nathan Milstein, guest soloists; Alexander Smallens, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Pierre Monteux, Vladimir Golschmann conducting...
Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3 (Dimitri Mitropoulos, pianist, conducting the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra of Philadelphia; Columbia, 1 side LP). The gifted Mitropoulos gives himself a successful double workout with this combination of beauty and bombast. Recording: good...
...crowded Carnegie Hall last week, Manhattan music lovers heard the next best thing to a stage production of Wozzeck-a brilliant concert version of the whole opera by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony and first-rate soloists under Dimitri Mitropoulos...