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Mitropoulos was born in Athens, the son of Yannis and Angelikē Mitropoulos. Trotter, William R. Priest of Music: The Life of Dimitri Mitropoulos. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press, 1995.

Mitropoulos was born in Athens, the son of Yannis and Angelikē Mitropoulos. His father owned a leather goods shop in downtown Athens. His earliest acknowledged composition – a sonata for violin and piano, now lost – dates from this period.

Mitropoulos was a passionate advocate of difficult modern music and an early champion of Mahler; his emotionally charged performances brought the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra into the first rank of American orchestras. Generous and self-effacing.

Mitropoulos was a passionate advocate of difficult modern music and an early champion of Mahler; his emotionally charged performances brought the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra into the first rank of American orchestras

Mitropoulos was a passionate advocate of difficult modern music and an early champion of Mahler; his emotionally charged performances brought the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra into the first rank of American orchestras. Generous and self-effacing, he was an innocent in the game of musical politics, unprepared for the intrigues and treachery in store when he became music director of the New York Philharmonic, "the orchestra that took no prisoners. Over 14 million journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.

Priest of Music book. A gangly fallen Alkyoneus with a heel borrowed from Achilles, as gentle as a breeze off the Aegean, imposing as a crumbling Parthenon column. He smokes like something infernal to stoke a suppressed fire.

William Trotter succeeds in giving us not just the details of his life (which, by themselves, are not exactly . At the time of Dimitri Mitropoulos' death in 1960, he was regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the century

William Trotter succeeds in giving us not just the details of his life (which, by themselves, are not exactly mundane), but also in bringing the reader the imagery, the depth of feeling of Mitropoulos' work. One can feel and see him conducting in his full glory. At the time of Dimitri Mitropoulos' death in 1960, he was regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the century. His spellbinding performances in Minneapolis and with the New York Philharmonic were legendary.

Lawyer Rob Newsom III invited him to write Deadly Kin, a true crime book, which was published in 1989. Priest of Music: The Life of Dimitri Mitropoulos (1995). It was awarded the Arts and Letters Prize of the Finlandia Foundation. A trilogy of books on the American Civil War in North Carolina was published in 1991 and 1992.

Mitropoulos, Dimitri, 1896-1960. Conductors (Music) - Biography.

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Mitropoulos was a passionate advocate of difficult modern music and an early champion of Mahler; his emotionally charged . ENG. Number of Pages.

William R. Trotter was raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, and educated at Davidson College, where he. . Trotter was raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, and educated at Davidson College, where he earned a . In addition, his biography of Mitropoulos, Priest of Music: The Life and Times of Dimitri Mitropoulos, was selected as one of the "ten best 'arts' books of the year" by National Public Radio, and one of his novellas has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. William Trotter lives with his wife and their youngest son in Greensboro, North Carolina.