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Priest of Music - The Life of Dimitri Mitropoulos (Hardcover, New)
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Priest of Music - The Life of Dimitri Mitropoulos (Hardcover, New)
Series: Amadeus
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A first-rate biographical study of one of the century's more
important conductors, Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960). Based on the
research of late musicologist Oliver Daniel, music critic Trotter
has created a comprehensive and neatly written portrait of
Mitropoulos, whom he correctly calls the "Forgotten Giant." Tracing
his life from student days in Greece to his mature artistic career
spent primarily in America (a decade in Minneapolis, where he
created an ensemble competitive with the top US orchestras,
followed in the 1950s by the music directorship of the New York
Philharmonic), Trotter emphasizes that Mitropoulos approached
music-making with the self-denying religious fervor that almost had
led him as a young man to take a monk's vows. This otherworldly
attitude may explain the genuinely tragic circumstances of
Mitropoulos's later years: his relative lack of pretense about his
own homosexuality at a time when other gay conductors advanced
their careers (sometimes at Mitropoulos's expense) by remaining in
the closet; his remaining in America instead of returning to
Europe, where he was idolized, on the grounds that he could fulfill
his missionary service to serious music better in the New World;
his carelessness about his health, which led to his premature death
of a massive coronary while rehearsing the La Scala Philharmonic in
Mahler's Third Symphony. None of this is simple, and with the
notable exception of Trotter's overemphasis on the effects of
Howard Taubman's New York Times criticism - reminiscent of the
"critics killed John Keats" school of biography - he avoids many of
the potholes of oversimplification. Since Mitropoulos is an elusive
conductor on disc, good hints toward a basic discography are
included. Humanizing, a valuable panorama of US classical music
culture, and an irresistible inducement to seek out the Mitropoulos
performances left to us on records. (Kirkus Reviews)
A biography of the conductor Mitropoulos. He was an advocate of
difficult modern music and an early champion of Mahler; his
performances brought the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra into the
first rank of American orchestras.
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