The great and beloved Greek conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos had been music director of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra for a dozen seasons when, in 1949, he departed its podium for an even more ...

It was inevitable that the Boston Symphony – hailed as “The Aristocrat of Orchestras” in the early '60s by RCA Victor, its long-time record company – would spin off an ensemble from its ...

with text, in album). On some copies of this, the first complete Romeo and Juliet on disks, RCA Victor affixed a gold sticker saying “For Hi-Fi Fans.” It’s more than that; it’s the epitome ...