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Dimitri Mitropoulos, tight-lipped conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony, denying rumors that he would replace Serge Koussevitzky as conductor of the Boston Symphony, playfully started a rumor of his own: "I am going to conduct a symphony ... in the Aleutians, and Koussevitzky is going to Berlin...
...just learned to drive, Gloria released the clutch as he crossed in front of the car. Only a cadenza-like leap saved him. Unruffled, the heiress drove him to her Lake Tahoe cabin while Manhattan friends & relatives dispatched frantic wires warning her not to marry the sixtyish conductor. Working on the side of the anti-romancers was 1) Stoky's shingles, 2) the weather (which did Stoky's neuritis no good), 3) the carbolated vaseline (to rub on his chest...
After the concert, the Minneapolis Symphony's conductor greeted a five-year-old backstage visitor. Patting the small, curly head, the conductor asked: "And what do you expect to do when you grow up, little man?" The boy replied: "Direct a symphony. I'll conduct your orchestra...
This week Victor Alessandro, 29, is making good his 24-year-old threat. From the podium of Oklahoma City's Municipal Auditorium he will guest-conduct the Minneapolis Symphony. And the experience will not be particularly novel. In the past six years, small, stocky Conductor Alessandro has led his own Oklahoma...
Self-assured Victor Alessandro became a conductor by the practical process of building up an orchestra of his own. When he finished studying in Rome and Salzburg (1938), he shrewdly left Eastern music centers, to return to the Southwest where there is more musical room-at-the-top. He took over the struggling, WPA-financed Oklahoma State Symphony, gave its discouraged musicians new enthusiasm. The big oil men who had sneered at the WPA's "Roosevelt fiddlers" liked Alessandro's orchestra and kept it going when the Federal funds stopped. This year they will raise...