{"product_id":"17248-mitropoulos-dimitri-signed-photograph-mountain-climbing","title":"Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960) Signed Photograph, Mountain Climbing","description":"Signed photograph of the important conductor, who is shown at the summit of a mountain, wearing mountaineering clothes and a coil of rope. He has signed and inscribed at the upper left (translated from the Italian) to his assistant Trudy Goth: \"To Trudy \/ a memory of happy times! \/ Dimitri.\" One pinhole, small corner crease and edge wear; overall very good. 6.75 x 9.5 inches (17.3 x 24 cm).\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eTrudy Goth, a writer on music and dance, served as Mitropoulos' European secretary beginning in the early 1950's. Biographer William R. Trotter writes: \"Goth, known in America primarily as the director of the Choreographers' Workshop in New York, was a woman of culture and some wealth; her mother maintained a beautiful Florentine villa that became Mitropoulos's headquarters during his visits to Italy [...] Trudy Goth not only too care of routine scheduling and travel arrangements, she also performed a perhaps even more valuable service by protecting Mitropoulos from the constant parade of favor-seekers and influence-peddlers who besieged the conductor whenever he appeared in public. [...] She made few friends in the process.\" (\u003ci\u003ePriest of Music: The Life of Dimitri Mitropoulos, \u003c\/i\u003ep. 344).\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093644038303,"sku":"17248","price":165.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Mitropoulos_Dimitri_SP_17248.jpg?v=1722189399","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/17248-mitropoulos-dimitri-signed-photograph-mountain-climbing","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}