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The National Herald | Remembering Dimitri Mitropoulos, the Monkish Maestro The National Herald | Remembering Dimitri Mitropoulos, The Monkish Maestro ● home ● Welcome, Ekaterini ● Sign out ● this week's paper ● My Account ● photo galleries ● Subscribe to print ● video ● blogs ● special issues ● archives Monday, December 13, 2010 Last Update: 10:20 AM ET ● Community ● Greece ● Sports ● Services ● International ❍ View Saved Articles ● USA ❍ View submitted photographs ❍ ● Cyprus View submitted stories ❍ View your classified listings ● Opinions ❍ Submit a photograph ● Culture ❍ Submit a story ● Obituaries ❍ Create a classified listing ● Social ❍ Renew my subscription ● My Account ● Classifieds ● Most Popular ● Contact SUBMIT YOUR TALK TO THE HERALD Remembering Dimitri Mitropoulos, The PHOTOGRAPHS Upload your local news. Upload photos from your Read all readers news. community. Monkish Maestro Constantine S. Sirigos NEW YORK – Dimitri Mitropoulos, who was the Director of the New York http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/48272 (1 of 9) [12/13/2010 10:22:36 AM] The National Herald | Remembering Dimitri Mitropoulos, The Monkish Maestro Philharmonic from 1949 to 1958, is a 20th Century titan among musicians and artists of modern Greece, and by extension, and a towering figure among Greek Americans. Yet, few Greek Americans know him and those who do seldom speak of him today, 50 years after his death. That changed, even if not enough, on Dimitri Mitropoulos, who was the Director of the New York Philharmonic from 1949 to 1958, is a 20th Century titan among musicians and artists of modern Greece, and by Nov. 29, when there was extension, and a towering figure among Greek Americans. Yet, few Greek Americans an opportunity to learn know him and those who do seldom speak of him today, 50 years after his death. about this brilliant but enigmatic Greek from a panel discussion that at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing arts in New York, the current home of the orchestra which he conducted when its home was the renowned Carnegie Hall. His place among the likes of Gustav Mahler and Bruno Walter who preceded him, and Leonard Bernstein, his immediate successor after his painful dismissal was discussed by two men who worked and made music with him, - renowned composer Gunther Schuller and Stanley Drucker, who played clarinet in the orchestra for 62 years - and two women who have studied his life and career intensely, Philharmonic archivist and historian Barbara Haws and documentary film maker Valery Kontakos. The panel, titled Considering Dimitri Mitropoulos, was part of the Philharmonic’s Insight Series and was part of a special tribute sponsored by the Niarchos Foundation. Mitropoulos, born in Athens in 1896, was a musical prodigy, making his American debut in 1936 with the esteemed Boston Symphony Orchestra and was conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra from 1937-49. Everything about the man, who seems to have always been filmed or photographed in harsh light and shadows, is a study in contrasts, ironies and contradictions. Mitropoulos fled the monastic life that called a number of his relatives, yet no one lived a more ascetic life in one of the worldliest on places on earth, a penthouse suite on the ninth floor of a hotel in midtown Manhattan. Schuler told the audience of an almost ritualistic pattern to his days. After a performance, he would flee the spotlights and both the applause and criticism of one of the world’s temples of music to enter the dark spaces of Times Square movie houses where he watched his era’s B movies, what he described in an interview with legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow as his fast-food version of the common life, which his schedule would not ● permit him to experience. “Like spaghetti out of a can,” the only nourishment his basic Articles last commented on humanity tasted the shy musician told Murrow whom he so respected, one of the few ● Philip Vorgias commented on permitted to interview him. ● Cypriot Ghost Town in Limbo as Peace After the movie, he would be asleep by midnight, only to wake up again at 4 a.m. Like Talks Falter http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/48272 (2 of 9) [12/13/2010 10:22:36 AM] The National Herald | Remembering Dimitri Mitropoulos, The Monkish Maestro Orthodox monks who must attend services through the day and night, Mitropoulos was ready ● Philip Vorgias commented on for his next ritual: In his study, surrounded by music scores, images of his favorite, if not his ● Greek Foreign Minister Calls for Western patron saint, Francis of Assisi, and a crucifix, he would begin an intensive four hour study of Balkan Countries EU Entry those scores. Schuler said he would often finger his rosary but having spent time on Mount Athos, its may well have been a komboskini, an Orthodox prayer rope. Murrow’s film crew ● Philip Vorgias commented on found him gazing at the stars over Manhattan, lost in solitude. In a sense, he followed the ● Greek Parliament to Tackle Controversial footsteps of his uncles, the monks who lived on a mountain, beneath the stars, only Labor Reforms meditating on musical notes rather than the words of prayers. There was a poignant and ironic moment in the interview – he was clearly uncomfortable throughout it and Schuller ● Philip Vorgias commented on noted he was trying very hard to be relaxed – when he revealed that he is lucky to have ● Behind a Taxi Wheel, Greek Ex-Banker escaped the fate of his uncles the monks, dying alone in their cells. Still, there was a powerful Remembers Glory Days pull from that world and he said that, “St. Francis inspired and guided me practically all my life.” ● Philip Vorgias commented on ● Greek Shipowners Dealing With The 25% POLITICS AND CULTURE Of World Fleet DON”T MIX Conflicting reports note he was ● Most Read revered and disrespected by 1. Church Files Claim Against WTC Owner - his musicians; the Updated performances he conducted ● Emailed were spectacular and ragged, 2. Archbishop Spyridon Formerly of America Has he was both beloved and ● SearchedNo Regrets unpopular with the public. 3. Church Fires Legal Notice at PA in St. Nicholas Haws acknowledged that the Battle man was irreducibly enigmatic, but her research yielded a 4. ‘Rebellious Immigrant’ Marks 2008 Riots somewhat coherent 5. Greek PM Holds Pow Wow with Drachma explanation for the divergent Advocate Nouriel Roubini views of the man, and some 6. 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His concerts featured the most modern of so-called classical music, the works of Anton Berg, Mahler and others filled with rhythms and dissonances that did not suite the taste of many, and the completely http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/48272 (3 of 9) [12/13/2010 10:22:36 AM] The National Herald | Remembering Dimitri Mitropoulos, The Monkish Maestro atonal pieces of Arnold Schonberg. It was not just modern sounds which moved him – Drucker said Mitropoulos loved “the total landscape of music” and turned in brilliant performances composers as early as Monteverdi, and Schuller said he witnessed “incredible performances of Tosca and Boris Gudunov – but Mitropoulos was powerfully devoted to 20th Century composers, especially his contemporaries whose works were neglected or maligned. Drucker told The National Herald that in New York, it was expected that a great orchestra would perform a variety of music, but Schuller said Mitropoulos overdid it. Missing from the discussion was an examination of his Greek background and life experiences and how that shaped his personality. A Greek would have brought up the word “pisma”, stubbornness. Clearly there was some of that, but there is a spiritual element too. It was not clear from the discussion the place of Orthodox Christianity in his life, but he was clearly a very spiritual man. In a fascinating Life Magazine article by Winthrop Sargeant on Feb. 18, 1946, it was revealed that Mitropoulos “grew up with the notion that he would become a monk on Mount Athos, like one Lets go to the tape: the answer to criticisms that some made about his of his two uncles.” Sargeant performances are in the recordings, both of his live concerts and of recording wrote: “That he failed to sessions. pursue this ambition is mainly attributable to a native rebelliousness against dogma and a lifelong love of instrumental music, which is not permitted in the rituals of the Greek Orthodox Church.” The article also mentioned that “Local dignitaries of the Greek church (in Minneapolis) have long been deeply offended because on the few occasions when he attends services,” he shows a preference for a local Presbyterian, church but the maestro said that was because he liked the pastor. The piece described Mitropoulos as “strictly an individualist where his religion is concerned, and quoted him saying, “Music for me is concerned with religious feeling and mystical expression. It arouses feeling towards God.” He often prayed in his dressing room before a concert. http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/48272 (4 of 9) [12/13/2010 10:22:36 AM] The National Herald | Remembering Dimitri Mitropoulos, The Monkish Maestro Mitropoulos said he had a mission, and although he did not take orders from what he called “the Bishops” of the music world, it did not seem motivated by a need to rebel.
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