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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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 ...

If the annals of conducting ever produced a genuine martyr to music, it was Dimitri Mitropoulos. During the decade before his death in 1960, he was considered in some musical circles to be the equal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Greek-born Mitropoulos (1896-1960) was one of the great American conductors of the midcentury, and it is astonishing how little his memory is regarded in his adopted land. Perhaps this obscurity is ...

The recent Leonard Bernstein biopic "Maestro" makes no mention of Minnesota. But maybe it should have. Before the famed conductor and composer led the New York Philharmonic or wrote the music for ...