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Schoenberg: Serenade, Op. 24 (Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting a string and woodwind septet with baritone voice; Esoteric Records, 2 sides LP). Composed in 1923, this is one of the first works in which Schoenberg utilized his twelve-tone technique. After a few hearings, something listenable begins to emerge. Performance and recording: good...
From President Truman came "Hearty birthday greetings to one whom the power of music has given the spirit of eternal youth." Pope Pius XII sent his apostolic benediction. From the speaker's table in a ballroom of Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel last week, Bruno Walter, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Georges Enesco, Nathan Milstein and Jennie Tourel all rose to add their tributes to the refrain. Finally a towered cake with 75 candles was carried in. While more than 400 guests stood and applauded and a string ensemble played his own Liebesfreud, white-haired old Violinist Fritz Kreisler...
...placid audience just couldn't take it. As Dimitri Mitropoulos flailed the orchestra through the first movement, sharp, hard and dissonant, they got up and walked out. The survivors were rewarded. The slow movement was just as uncompromising, but more elegiac, occasionally reminding them of melody. The final movement, like the first, was a rouser...
...been three years since Conductor Rodzinski quit the New York Philharmonic-Symphony after a fiery row with the directors (TIME, Feb. 17, 1947). The orchestra at first threatened to disintegrate under a series of guest conductors. But last year Leopold Stokowski and the Minneapolis Symphony's Greek-born Dimitri Mitropoulos, sharing most of the season under Bruno Walter as musical adviser, began to pull it together again...
This season the same team minus Walter has worked it back to first-class shape. Last week came a decision. Leopold Stokowski, 67, informed the directors he would not be available next season; the board voted unanimously to make 53-year-old, egg-bald Dimitri Mitropoulos the Philharmonic's regular conductor...