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 ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. On January 2, 1936, the popular conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, ...

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 ...

On January 13, 1949, The Aspen Times revealed that plans were coming together for the Goethe Bicentennial to be held that summer in Aspen. As the paper reported, “the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A new 69-disc box of Dimitri Mitropoulos’s recordings is an opportunity to reassess a conductor who remains out of reach. By David Allen When Dimitri ...

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 ...