Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Dmitri Mitropoulos
Greek-born American Conductor
"Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt."
"I never use a score when conducting my orchestra. Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?"
"Unfortunately the inexplorable laws of destiny for the chosen people they have to follow their duties, not their heart desires. I'm going some place I don't know if I am going to be happy. But I have to go."