Word: dimitry
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...which invaded the popular field with Bing Crosby and a 35? disc, also repressed, at 50? to $1, a great many foreign recordings. Columbia, most of whose twelve-inch symphonic discs remained at $1.50, began improving its product mechanically, lately signed up such topnotchers as the Minneapolis Symphony under Dimitri Mitropoulos, the Chicago Symphony under Frederick Stock, the Cleveland Orchestra under Artur Rodzinski. Likewise U. S. Records (run by Eli Oberstein, onetime Victor executive) produced a collection of classical recordings, not of the best mechanically but attractively priced...
...days life for St. Petersburg's upper crust was a wild melee of tempestuous music and passionate romance. From these Director Dreville has compounded "Kreutzer Sonata." As in Tolstoy's story the characters are carefree debauchees who tinkle champagne glasses to Beethoven's music. Thus Jean Yonnel, as Dimitri Pozdnycheff the irrestible rake, makes eyes at his creditor's wife while that gentleman removes the furniture, and reforms by going home to make love to the country lasses. American tabloid readers can fill in the rest of the plot: true love, questioned virtue, and a scheming horse-faced violinist...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 (Minneapolis Symphony, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia: 10 sides). In his first album with the Minneapolitans, Conductor Mitropoulos (TIME, April 24) proves himself tops, in batonistic oomph, gives this classic one of its finest recordings to date...