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Ha introduced Shostako vich's Tenth Symphony to New York audiences, re vived Strauss' "Elektra" in a sensational concert performance with the Philharmonic and conducted the world premier of the Barber-lenotti opera "Vanessa" in January, 1958, the first American opera performed at the Metropolitan in many years. His memory for music was phenomenal, on a par with that of the late Arturo Tos-canini. Mitropoulos not only conducted without a score but also rehearsed the same way. Born in Athens Born in Athens, Greece, on Feb. 18, 1896, Mitropoulos was the son of a merchant.

As a boy he almost made a vocation of religion. Two of his uncles were monks in the Greek Orthodox Church, and one of his great-uncles was an archbishop. But music was a major influence in his life also. Young Dimitri planned to enter a monastery but changed his mind when he Itfarned he would be forbidden to have a little harmonium. Virtuoso Pianist Instead he enrolled at the Athens Conservatory, where he quickly established himself as a virtuoso pianist and a gifted composer.

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