The great and beloved Greek conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos had been music director of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra for a dozen seasons when, in 1949, he departed its podium for an even more ...

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Last week the sedate lights of Manhattan’s Carnegie Hall shone on a well-polished bald head, which bobbed and weaved over the assorted pates of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. Now & then ...

Athens awaited its moment of musical glory. Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos was returning to his native Greece for the first time in 17 years, bringing with him the 104 members of his touring New York ...

Long after their ruckus with temperamental Artur Rodzinski (TIME, Feb. 17, 1947), the directors of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra seemed unwilling to give full-conductor powers to ...

Dimitri Mitropoulos, who has been appointed to take over next fall as full conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra and who, as its co-conductor, is currently completing his first ...

For my weekly salute to the good old days, I thought I’d salute Dimitri Mitropoulos, a conductor who never fails to impress me — at least from recordings, which are all I have to go by (he was long ...