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	Dimitris Mitropoulos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mitropoulos was born in Athens and studied music there and in Brussels and Berlin, with Ferruccio Busoni among his teachers.
		Mitropoulos made his U.S. debut in 1936 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and in subsequent years he settled in the country, becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1946.
		Mitropoulos was noted as a champion of modern music, such as that by the members of the Second Viennese School.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dimitris_Mitropoulos (362 words)

	Mitropoulos
		Dimitri Mitropoulos was educated in the priesthood before deciding on a career in music.
		Mitropoulos worked at the Berlin State Opera from 1921 to 1925 and was the conductor of the Odeon Conservatory Orchestra in Athens from 1924 to 1929.
		Mitropoulos was an accomplished pianist and often conducted from the piano.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /mitropoulos.html (239 words)

	Mitropoulos more
		Dimitri Mitropoulos is one of those conductors from the mid-20th century, like Hermann Abendroth, who is being rediscovered as the century draws to a close.
		Mitropoulos was drawn equally to religion and music, and for a time considered life as a monk, and later as a priest in the Greek Orthodox Church, until he learned that in this role he would be permitted a bare minimum of music in his life.
		Mitropoulos' tenure with the Minneapolis Symphony was different from his predecessors.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /mitropoulos_more.html (1703 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Mitropoulos, Dimitri
		Although Mitropoulos was devoted to music and had already composed a sonata for violin and piano while in his early teens, he planned on becoming a monk after completing his education.
		Mitropoulos gave up the thought of becoming a monk when his advisor in the Greek Orthodox Church informed him that no musical instruments were allowed in the monastery.
		Mitropoulos considered himself a missionary of music, and part of his mission was to bring new and challenging works to audiences.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/mitropoulos_d.html (857 words)

	Mitropoulos: Great Conductors series 5 75471 2 [JQ]: Classical CD Reviews- Jan 2004 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Firstly, though Dimitri Mitropoulos was something of a flawed genius, in music to which he was suited he was inspirational: truly a great conductor.
		Mitropoulos leads a performance that is fantastic (in the true sense) and alive.
		James Chambers, principal horn of the NYPO between 1946 and 1969 has written of Mitropoulos in Mahler that "there was a remarkable conformity in style between composer and conductor." I don’t think this conductor has really received his due for the part he played in the propagation of Mahler’s music after the Second World War.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2004/Jan04/mitropoulos.htm (2093 words)

	Dimitri Mitropoulos in New York TAHRA 531-532 [JQ]: Classical CD Reviews- July 2004 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Generally Mitropoulos sustains the rather Haydnesque mood of affection, though the climax of the movement is typically emphatic.
		The Life of Dimitri Mitropoulos (1995) William R. Trotter quotes many contemporary concert critiques that suggest that Mitropoulos was not a good conductor of standard classical and romantic music.
		The recent volume devoted to Mitropoulos in the ‘Great Conductors of the Twentieth Century’ series, which I reviewed recently which I reviewed recently, concentrated mainly on the sort of the music in which he was particularly highly regarded, including a shattering, once-in-a-lifetime Mahler Sixth.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2004/July04/Mitropoulos_NY.htm (1965 words)

	Dimitris Mitropoulos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Dimitris Mitropoulos (Greek: Δημήτρης Μητρόπουλος) (March 1, 1896 – November 2, 1960) was a Greek conductor, pianist, and composer who spent most of his career in the United States.
		Mitropoulos, Dimitri, and Katsoyanis, Katy: A correspondence, 1930–1960.
		Trotter, William R. Priest of Music: The Life of Dimitri Mitropoulos.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Dimitri_Mitropoulos (401 words)

	Review: Dimitri Mitropoulos Conducts Rachmaninoff, Isle of the Dead (Die Toteninsel).
		I first got turned on to Dimitri Mitropoulos when I was in high school, and my band director lent me a copy of Mitropoulos conducting Liszt's Les Preludes and Richard Strauss' Salome's Dance, recorded in the 1950s with the New York Philharmonic (Columbia Masterworks ML-5198, I still haven't returned it).
		Mitropoulos' rower becomes General Douglas Mac Arthur, and the island of lost souls becomes the Inchon Landing.
		Mitropoulos as conductor was the Nietzschean superman incarnate.
	home.flash.net /~park29/mitropoulos.htm (907 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Mitropoulos, Dimitri
		Mitropoulos had always dodged questions about his bachelor status by claiming "I married my art" when queried by the press.
		In a 1952 letter to a friend Mitropoulos wrote, "for me music is another expression of my unlived sexual life." Trotter states that Mitropoulos did indeed lead a celibate life in both Minneapolis and New York, although perhaps "very occasionally" not on tour, his "sexual drive.
		Typically gracious, Mitropoulos bowed out with praise for Bernstein's talent, but the loss of his position as director of the leading American orchestra was deeply hurtful to him, a wound from which he never fully recovered.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/mitropoulos_d,2.html (879 words)

	Dimitri Mitropoulos
		Dimitri Mitropoulos (March 1, 1896 - November 2, 1960) was a conductor, pianist and composer.
		Mitropooulos was born in Athens and studied music there and in Brussels and Berlin, with Ferruccio Busoni among his teachers.
		Mitropoulos made his United States debut in 1936 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and he subsequently settled in the country, becoming a US citizen in 1946.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/d/di/dimitri_mitropoulos.html (295 words)

	Amazon.com: Mitropoulos Conducts Mahler [BOX SET]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		As always, Mitropoulos presents a wealth of detail that other conductors either neglect or perceive to be part of something else.
		Mitropoulos' uncanny achievement here is to convey both the foreboding of a Europe at the crossroads and the anti-nostaglia
		Mitropoulos' Mahler is very individual as he was approaching these works fresh and not relying on other interpretations.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000009CO7?v=glance (869 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Another great Mitropoulos Sixth, from 1955 with the New York Philharmonic, is in the orchestra's expensive, essential box of all the symphonies under various conductors.
		Finally, in Mitropoulos' hands Salome's notorious dance is far from the showpiece-filler it usually is when torn from its operatic context.
		This one's supercharged in the Mitropoulos manner, less a sensuous strip-tease than a descent to the depths of depravity.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=6892 (555 words)

	MITROPOULOS CONDUCTS MAHLER
		Bernstein's advocacy furthermore came after Dimitri Mitropoulos' in Minneapolis (where, before him, Eugene Ormandy made the first American recording of Symphony No. 2 for RCA Victor) and later in new York during his decade (1948-1958) as co-conductor and music director of the NYPSO.
		Mitropoulos also gave the American premiere of Symphony No. 3 with the NYPSO in April 1956, included here, but with 7-8 minutes cut from the development section of the long first movement, doubtless to fit in the NYPSO's broadcast slot.
		Mitropoulos' tempo for the second movement Minuet was both too fast and empty-headed--like Stravinsky's ballerina in Petrushka.
	classicalcdreview.com /mahlermitwpd2.html (1540 words)

	Live Forza with Stella/de Stefano
		In September of 1960 Dimitri Mitropoulos conducted six performances at the Vienna State Opera of Verdi's La forza del destino.
		In addition, Dimitri Mitropoulos was never a conductor known for pristine technical execution in the manner of, say, Arturo Toscanini or Fritz Reiner.
		Whether depicting the violence of the battlefield or the refuge of the monastery, it's clear Mitropoulos is working with the singers, allowing them to do their best in Verdi's extraordinarily difficult music.
	classicalcdreview.com /forzavi.htm (718 words)

	Powell's Books - Priest of Music: The Life of Dimitri Mitropoulos by William R Trotter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Mitropoulos was a passionate advocate of difficult modern music and an early champion of Mahler; his emotionally charged performances brought the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra into the first rank of American orchestras.
		Generous and self-effacing, he was an innocent in the game of musical politics, unprepared for the intrigues and treachery in store when he became music director of the New York Philharmonic, the orchestra that took no prisoners.
		Mitropoulos was considered one of the most brilliant conductors of the century when he died, in 1960, yet within a decade his achievements were largely forgotten.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0931340810 (258 words)

	Reissue CDs DEC03, Pt. 2 - AUDIOPHILE AUDITION
		EMI continues its impressive cycle of conductors' tributes with an imporant testament to Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960) in repertory vital to his ethos, particularly the Mahler Sixth from Cologne, August 31, 1959, a thrilling conception whose Andante moderato (placed in the third-movement position) is heart-rending.
		Mitropoulos adds the trumpet flurry at the end of wind-and-sea dialogue to give Triton his due.
		The Cologne has all the earmarks of Mitropoulos' style: the frenetic urgency, the longing for eternity, the colossal paroxysms of the flesh.
	www.audaud.com /audaud/DEC03/reissues/recds2.html (2405 words)

	Classical Net Review - Great Conductors - Mitropoulos, Szell, Van Beinum
		Religious metaphors sometimes are used to describe Dimitri Mitropoulos; William Trotter’s biography of the conductor is titled Priest of Music.
		Mitropoulos, who was born in Athens in 1896, spent much of his professional career conducting orchestras in the United States: the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (happily) and the New York Philharmonic (less happily, mostly for the “sin” of being neither Bruno Walter nor Leonard Bernstein).
		Mitropoulos, who appears to have led a largely celibate lifestyle, nevertheless seems to have known enough about love and lust to portray them unforgettably in music.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/e/emi75941a.html (1133 words)

	Amazon.com: Mahler: Symphonies 3 & 8: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Dimitri Mitropoulos' conducting of Mahler in the late 1940's and through the 1950's really fully introduced Mahler to American audiences.
		I don't know what Mitropoulos may have cut in the way of repeats, but nothing seems to be missing.
		What Mitropoulos does do is radically rephrase the work, bringing out every element of this immense structure with clarity and vigor.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00001U05Z?v=glance (819 words)

	AllRefer.com - Dimitri Mitropoulos (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Dimitri Mitropoulos[dEmE´trE mEtrO´pOOlOs] Pronunciation Key, 1896–1960, Greek-American conductor.
		A piano pupil of Busoni, in 1930 he substituted for an indisposed piano soloist and simultaneously conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
		He made guest appearances in the United States and was conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (1937–49), and of the New York Philaharmonic (1949–58).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Mitropou.html (209 words)

	Amazon.com: Busoni Recalled - The 1941 New York Commemorative Concert / Mitropoulos, New York PO: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Mitropoulos is masterful in the romanticized Mozart arrangement and the Sarabande and Cortege.
		Petri's irresistible Indian Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra, based on American Indian themes, tingles with life; he and Mitropoulos are incomparable in the atmospheric slow movement and the finale's rhythmic swing.
		Szigeti is as masterful in the 1897 Violin Concerto, superior to his 1954 Columbia studio recording, made when his technique no longer allowed him the tonal purity and command of line we hear in this performance.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000038I61?v=glance (458 words)

	Classical Net Review - Mahler/Brahms/Shostakovich/Dvořák/Smetana - Sony's Masterworks Heritage
		It was recorded in 1954, while the conductor still was holding a regular position (shared, more or less, with Dimitri Mitropoulos and Leonard Bernstein) with the New York Philharmonic.
		Mitropoulos already had established himself as a strong advocate for Shostakovich through performances and recordings of the Fifth and Tenth Symphonies.
		The recorded balance favors Oistrakh, but it is Mitropoulos of whom I want to hear more; he sets up a cold and lonely ambience that seems to be the Iron Curtain in notes.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/s/sny63328a.html (1214 words)

	MAHLER: Symphony No.8 : Classical CD Reviews-April 2000 Music on the Web(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		With its double choir, large orchestra, organ and seven soloists it was too big and expensive to record and the faithful had to rely on a handful of recordings taken from "live" performances.
		By the arrival of the closing passage Mitropoulos's steadiness has so much become the norm that I at least had become adjusted and found the coda as thrilling as ever, even though the timpani thumping out one of the movement's main themes was still a trifle stodgy.
		This passage is superbly prepared for by the choruses who, with Mitropoulos and the orchestra, give the impression of coming from higher and higher spheres.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2000/apr00/mahler8.htm (1119 words)

	ABC Classic FM Music Details: Sunday 30 June 1996
		All the intrigues and betrayals associated with the golden age of conducting unfold against the backdrop of a New York City restaurant in this dramatised music feature on the life of the Greek American conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, whose centenary was earlier this year.
		Mitropoulos was most noted for his music directorship of the New York Philharmonic and was considered to be one of the most brilliant conductors of his time.
		Dimitri Mitropoulos: Max Mastrosavas; Arturo Mirtallo: Nicola Tudini; Katina Paxinou: Joanna Tsalikis; Dimitri: William Smith
	www.abc.net.au /classic/daily/stories/s629999.htm (818 words)

	Priest of Music: The Life of Dimitri Mitropoulos
		The collection includes research materials for Trotterâs book, Priest of Music: The Life of Dimitri Mitropoulos.
		He corresponded with old friends and colleagues of Mitropoulos in order to prepare for the biography.
		include photocopies of newspaper clippings relating to Mitropoulos from newspapers in both Minneapolis and New York plus foreign papers when Mitropoulos was on tour.
	special.lib.umn.edu /findaid/xml/PA71.xml (406 words)

	HELLENIC UNIVERSITY CLUB : HISTORY & OBJECTIVES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Hailed as one of the great conductors of the 20th century, Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960) was also a virtuoso pianist and a remarkable composer with a most uniquely personal expressive style.
		During his final, third creative period (1928-1937), due to the fact that Mitropoulos dedicates increasingly more energy towards his conducting career, he composed only sporadically and always with specific occasions in mind (i.e., incidental music to Sophocles’ Elektra and Euripides’ Hippolytos of 1937).
		The final work of his first, most active, compositional period, the Greek Sonata (1920) is the connecting link between the "learned and experimented" early style and the mature examples of the later periods.
	www.huc.org /eventinfo/dimarassubject.htm (313 words)

	Mitropoulos, Dimitri on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		He made guest appearances in the United States and was conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (1937-49), and of the New York Philaharmonic (1949-58).
		Mitropoulos wrote an opera and transcribed for orchestra many of J. Bach's organ works.
		100 YEARS; MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA; Three batons, one musician; Henry Kramer recalls playing for Mitropoulos, Dorati and Skrowaczewski during 35 years with the orchestra.(ENTERTAINMENT)(100 YEARS: MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Mitropou.asp (280 words)

	LAMC: LAMúsiCa Vol.2 No. 4: A Conversation with Roque Cordero
		In the case of someone more personal, like Mitropoulos, I didn't write a piece to his memory until one year after he had passed away, but in this case it was simply to pay tribute to a man who meant so much to me, so I did write the piece to his memory.
		Like Mitropoulos said, it's the easiest living because you are being paid to conduct the music that somebody else wrote and somebody else is playing.
		That is what Mitropoulos said and I agree with him, and perhaps that is why everybody wants to be a professional conductor today: they get more money than the performers and more than the composer.
	www.music.indiana.edu /som/lamc/publications/lamusica/vol2.4/cordero.html (5556 words)

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