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	Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Dimitri Mitropoulos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Born near Athens, Greece, 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 studied at the Conservatory in Athens and in Berlin.
		Mitropoulos had a vibrant personality both on and off the podium and was a significant influence on Leonard Bernstein.
	andrejkoymasky.com /liv/fam/biom5/mitr1.html (240 words)

	INKPOT#85 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: STRAUSS, R. Elektra - Recordings Inktroduction and Survey
		Mitropoulos was a consistent advocate of this opera, all three of his interpretations marked by his typically illuminating and penetrating treatment of the score.
		Mitropoulos' mastery of the score is always evident, although this is a noticeably slower performance than his Florence recording.
		Inge Borkh's 1957 Salzburg Elektra with Dmitri Mitropoulos is narrowly preferable to her studio recording with Böhm, although that performance alone is worth acquiring for the superb playing of the Dresden Staatskapelle.
	inkpot.com /classical/elektrar.html (1965 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)

	Vienna Philharmonic: 1957-1963 : Music
		Dmitri Mitropoulos was a great Mahlerian, but he is heard to better effect on the Mahler broadcast box set from the NY Phil.
		The Mitropoulos 9th has the worst sound, but it is an electrifying performance by a master conductor who would be dead within one month.
		Dmitri Mitropoulos leads Mahler´s Ninth Symphony - eerily, just one month before the conductor would suffer a fatal heart attack while conducting the same composer´s Third Symphony.
	www.eldus.com /an/B00005T82S.html (1149 words)

	ConcertoNet.com - The Classical Music Network
		Since he controlled both ends of the transaction, he was able to insist on the repertoire most comfortable for his instrumental stars and expected little or no resistance from his hand-picked music directors who, after all, depended on him for the food on the tables of their families.
		It was the ascetic bachelor Mitropoulos’ love of contemporary music that caused the rift between him and his manager, a division which would lead to the conductor’s ouster after just a few seasons at Carnegie Hall.
		Mitropoulos was on the podium at Carnegie the night that the Violin Concerto # 1 of Dmitri Shostakovich was given its American premiere by its dedicatee David Oistrakh.
	www.concertonet.com /scripts/review.php?ID_review=2278 (1009 words)

	Grant Johannesen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He made his Manhattan recital debut when he was 23, and won the Concours International when he was 28.
		He toured extensively, both with the New York Philharmonic under Dmitri Mitropoulos, and as a solo performer.
		His performances in Moscow were especially well received.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grant_Johannesen (316 words)

	Environment influences orchestras' sounds - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Mitropoulos conducted Mahler's Ninth Symphony in 1960 in the Musikverein only a month before he died while rehearsing the same composer's Third Symphony in Rome.
		At his best, Mitropoulos was a conductor of special intensity, perhaps best heard in his pioneering recording of Alban Berg's opera "Wozzeck" on Sony Classics.
		The Mahler performance in the Andante set is frustrating because moments of intensity and insight, such as the extraordinary final moments of the piece, exist alongside other music whose moments are as devoid of specific personality as drops of water in a stream.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_133455.html (1294 words)

	Leonard Bernstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After a long internal struggle and a turbulent on-and-off engagement, he married Felicia Montealegre Cohn on September 9, 1951, reportedly in order to increase his chances of obtaining the chief conducting position with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
		Dimitri Mitropoulos, music director of the New York Philharmonic at the time and one of Bernstein's mentors, advised him that marrying would help counter the gossip about his sexual life and appease the conservative BSO board.
		He was considered especially accomplished with the works of Gustav Mahler, Aaron Copland, Johannes Brahms, Dmitri Shostakovich, George Gershwin (especially the Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris), and of course with the performances of his own works.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leonard_Bernstein (1738 words)

	Mitropoulos, Dimitri - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Mitropoulos, Dimitri" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-mitropou.html (244 words)

	Gustav Mahler
		In the case of Webern, who, in his early professional life, had conducted performances of Mahler symphonies, one may detect a Mahlerian concern with total textural clarity, although the small scale and rhetorical sparseness of Webern's mature pieces means that overt 'Mahlerisms' are hard to find outside his juvenilia.
		The earliest significant non-contemporaries to register the impact of Mahler were perhaps Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich, both of whom identified with elements of Mahler's personal and creative character as well as with aspects of his musical style.
		Likewise, many aspects of his rather ruthless perfectionism have not been perpetuated: in today's musical world, with its unionized players and 'self-governing' orchestras), Mahler's authoritarianism and his brow-beating of individual players would never be tolerated.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/g/gu/gustav_mahler.html (4089 words)

	HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A Dictionary of Scientists; Jan 1, 1999; 201 Words Ivanovsky, Dmitri Iosifovich (1864–1920) Russian botanist Ivanovsky was born in Gdov, Russia, and studied natural sciences at St. Petersburg...
		His most famous work, published in 1869, was the compilation of the periodic table of the elements, based on the periodic law.
		A Dictionary of Scientists; Jan 1, 1999; 444 Words Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich (1834–1907) Russian chemist Mendeleev was the youngest child of a large family living in Tobolsk, Siberia.
	www.highbeam.com /library/search.asp?FN=AO&search_dictionaries=on&refid=ency_refd&q=Dmitri (786 words)

	The Harbinger. Modern Composers. March 28, 2000
		After a stint in the army during World War II, Shapey settled in New York and attracted the attention of Dmitri Mitropoulos, conductor of the New York Philharmonic.
		Mitropoulos commissioned a work for orchestra by Shapey, and the rehearsal and performance of that piece marked the beginning of Shapey's reputation for being a difficult conductor as well as a difficult composer.
		Though he was considered a virtuoso conductor and composer, Shapey was not well known by the public during the 1940s and 50s.
	www.theharbinger.org /xviii/000328/forbus.html (431 words)

	Leonard Bernstein, A Total Embrace of Music, Classical Notes, Peter Gutmann
		In contrast to the usual image of a meek and reserved classical conductor, Mitropoulos was physically imposing, radiated enormous energy and foreswore a baton to gesture eloquently with his bare hands.
		Mitropoulos returned to his permanent post in Minneapolis but wired Bernstein $200 to enable him to spend the next winter vacation with him.
		The attraction of Mitropoulos and Copland to Bernstein was not entirely professional; through them came Bernstein's entree into a lifelong series of homosexual relationships into which he poured considerable emotion and energy.
	www.classicalnotes.net /features/bernstein-nopix.html (18939 words)

	Penn Special Collections - Music/Images (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Gathered from a variety of sources, these images have come to Penn as part of multi-faceted collections that document the life of an individual or, as in the case of the Allen Winigrad Collection, directly from the photographer himself.
		Included here are rarely-captured moments: the conductors Klaus Tennstedt and Leopold Stokowski playing the instrument with which each, respectively, began his career; Gustav Mahler and Franz Werfel in a comic moment; Nellie Melba, costumed in one of her famous stage roles; and the unlikely pairing of Duke Ellington and Dmitri Mitropoulos.
		Each of these photographs is a gem hidden within the collection of which it is a part, and each--whether posed or candid--provides a visual enhancement to the archival record.
	www.library.upenn.edu /exhibits/rbm/music/images.html (119 words)

	Bel Canto Society: Browsing #5011 Ernani (CD set) Del Monaco, Cerquetti, Bastianini, Christoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Furthermore they are led by the legendary Mitropoulos, such a force for good at the Maggio Musicale until his untimely death.
		He easily encompasses the cut and thrust, the rudimentary fervour of one of Verdi’s earliest successes, combining at once rude rhythms with lyrical breadth of phrase in supporting his admirable cast and firmly controlling the many ensembles, and his orchestra responds eagerly to his positive beat.
		Mitropoulos emphasizes melodic elements in the orchestration and introduces considerable ebb and flow of tempo, so that the score becomes more romantic.
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	Amazon.com: Strauss: Elektra: Music: Dimitri Mitropoulos,Salzburg Vienna Philharmoniker,Alois Pernerstorfer,Anny ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Dimitri Mitropoulos drives a volcanic performance, full of dramatic thrust and inevitability that captures the surging lyricism and yearning of the characters.
		But the real cement that holds this performance together is the absolutely phenomenal conducting of the late Dmitri Mitropoulos.
		Bringing all the woodwinds forward to his right and conducting this immensely difficult score from memory, a la Toscanini, Mitropoulos gave here what was possibly the finest opera performance of his life.
	www.amazon.com /Strauss-Elektra-Dimitri-Mitropoulos/dp/B0000044XQ (797 words)

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		Dmitri Mitropoulos / New York Philharmonic (MH2K 62759)
		Another exciting installment in Sony’s Masterworks Heritage series is Dmitri Mitropoulos’s uncanny 1951 recording — the first ever made — of Berg’s Expressionist opera Wozzeck.
		Mitropoulos is second to none in his comprehension of Berg’s intentions, and the subtle playing he wrings from the New York Philharmonic remains admirable by today’s standards.
	www.scena.org /lsm/sm3-5/sm3-5CDsa.htm (2721 words)

	Richard STRAUSS: Elektra Kleiber: Classical CD Reviews-June 2000 Music on the Web(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Elektra is almost unique in that all of it's greatest performances stem from live broadcasts.
		Böhm's, Solti's and Sinopoli's are the best of the studio recordings, but you have to turn to Dmitri Mitropoulos (Salzburg 1957 or New York 1958), Richard Krauss (Cologne 1953) or, best of all, Karajan (Salzburg 1964) to hear this opera as it should be played.
		Karajan gives this opera an incandescence that is unequalled, but Kleiber goes one step further drawing the most refined distinctions between the opera's dissonance and lyrical consonance more tangibly than any other interpreter.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2000/june00/elektra.htm (1075 words)

	Amazon.com: Mozart: Don Giovanni: Music: Dimitri Mitropoulos,Fernando Corena,Gottlob Frick,Lisa della Casa,Rita ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		But the real hero is Dimitri Mitropoulos, who leads a performance of great intensity, yet never breaks the classic frame.
		Presiding is the conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, successor at Salzburg to Furtwaengler, before his own death in 1960.
		If tempi are occasionally slow, they are nevertheless true to Mozart's wish that the opera be presented as a "drama in a joking style".
	www.amazon.com /gp/product/B000002A4M (1723 words)

	January - Season Calendar - Austin Symphony
		Both his parents were musicians, and there was frequent music-making in the apartment.
		As mother Sofya told the tale, in the summer of 1915 she sat Dmitri down to try a piano lesson.
		She opened a piano arrangement of the slow movement of a Haydn symphony.
	www.austinsymphony.org /season/january/NSS.asp (1479 words)

	'Great Conductors of the 20th Century - Dmitri Mitropoulos' by Dimitri Mitropoulos from The Portsmouth Chorus. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Great Conductors of the 20th Century - Dmitri Mitropoulos, Dimitri Mitropoulos,Hector Berlioz,Claude Debussy,Gustav Mahler,Richard Strauss,New York Philharmonic,WDR Sinfonie Orchester KÃ¶ln.
		The Strauss and Berlioz are particularly fine; the Debussy, as the booklet says, "more fire than water", is the least convincing perhaps, unless Mitropoulos' Sea is treated as a psychological portrait of mental turbulence.
		Click for more related Music about 'Great Conductors of the 20th Century - Dmitri Mitropoulos' - from ThePortsmouthChorus.com.
	www.theportsmouthchorus.com /music-cd/B00006J3L9 (476 words)

	'Mitropoulos conducted the Berlin Philharmonic' by Dimitri Mitropoulos from The Portsmouth Chorus. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		'Mitropoulos conducted the Berlin Philharmonic' by Dimitri Mitropoulos from The Portsmouth Chorus.
		Mitropoulos conducted the Berlin Philharmonic, Dimitri Mitropoulos,Felix Mendelssohn,Arnold Schoenberg,Claude Debussy,Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
		Dimitri Mitropoulos, Hector Berlioz, Claude Debussy, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, New York Philharmonic, WDR Sinfonie Orchester KÃ¶ln
	www.theportsmouthchorus.com /music-cd/B000026A2T (250 words)

	WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln Profile
		Founded in 1947 by the then Nordwestdeutschen Rundfunk (Northwestern German Radio) as an orchestra of the WDR.
		It worked together and made recordings with distinguished conductors - Otto Klemperer, Sir Georg Solti, Dmitri Mitropoulos, Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado, among others.
		Currently, the orchestra gives some forty concerts per season at the Cologne Philharmonie and all over the broadcasting area of the WDR.
	www.moderecords.com /profiles/WDRsinfonieorchester.html (156 words)

	Artist-in-Residence Program
		In January of 1950 Dmitri Mitropoulos conducted the first U.S. performance of Webern’s
		Both, overwhelmed, left the concert immediately after, found and introduced one another in the lobby of Carnegie Hall, and became close friends, passing their music and thoughts back and forth, intensively for about the next four or five years.
		By the mid 60s he had stopped playing the piano and devoted himself to live electronics, with his own invented circuitry, becoming a composer-performer.
	www.admin.ias.edu /air/words/wolff2.html (511 words)

	classical music - andante - salzburg festival, 10 august 1958: mitropoulos, gould
		The Salzburg Festival was undergoing a period of transition in the late 1950s as visiting orchestras brought varied perspectives and the Vienna Philharmonic began to surrender its hegemony.
		The committed modernist Dmitri Mitropoulos — an absurdly underrated conductor nowadays — breathes fire into the repertory standards that comprise the rest of the program.
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	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=17721 (262 words)

	Dmitri Mitropoulos conducts Schoenberg, Scriabin, et al CD () - SHOP.COM
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	STRAUSS Elektra Varnay [PQ]: Classical CD Reviews- July2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This broadcast is also the earliest account I know of the score from Dmitri Mitropoulos; though I’m acquainted with performances from Florence in 1951 (Anny Konetzni) and Vienna in 1957 (Inge Borkh), I believe there to be several others.
		For Mitropoulos too, impetuosity is the dominant feature here: the opening of Klytemnestra’s scene is too fast for full menace to register.
		The Vienna performance from 1957 finds Mitropoulos in far more contemplative mood, dwelling on phrases more and spotlighting motifs from within the orchestra.
	musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/July02/Strauss_Elektra.htm (906 words)

	KAPELL PLAYS BRAHMS AND PROKOFIEV, CD-4990 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Here again, we have the Philharmonic (this time under Dmitri Mitropoulos on April 12, 1953) recorded in the luscious acoustics of the old Carnegie Hall.
		While there is still a good deal of brilliance in the playing -- listen to the ferocity with which Kapell attacks passages of exposed octaves -- there is also a welcome poise and serenity in softer passages and an abiding sense of formal structure throughout."
		Dimitri Mitropoulos (12 April 1953, New York); and PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 3, Op.
	www.musicandarts.com /CDpages/CD4990hi.html (350 words)

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