The Legacy of Dimitri Mitropoulos

Did you know that former Philharmonic Music Director Dimitri Mitropoulos committed every single score he conducted to memory before the first rehearsal? 🤯 Today, the NY Phil Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives releases more than 120 marked scores from Mitropoulos, available free for the public to peruse for the very first time. Sony Classical also releases a 69-CD box set of Mitropoulos’s complete recordings for RCA and Columbia. NY Philharmonic Director of Archives & Exhibitions Gabryel Smith and former Philharmonic bassist Orin O’Brien discuss Mitropoulos’s legacy and why he deserves to be recognized among the Orchestra’s legendary Music Directors. See the marked scores at the NY Phil Digital Archives: Purchase the Sony Classical box set: For more information visit Subscribe at Facebook: Twitter: https://twitter.