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Mitropoulos the Modernist Conducts Arthur Shepherd

Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts the Minnesota Symphony in performance of Arthur Shepherd’s Fantasy Overture on Down East Spirituals (1946) on January 14th, 1949. Mitropoulos was well known for his passion for modern classical - often having the Minneapolis Symphony perform pieces that a 1940s Minnesota audience wasn’t fully prepared for. This incredibly well recorded and preserved recording captures one of those occasions. The description on the reel box didn’t give me much to go on, and a lot of creative googling and newspaper searches didn’t help. However, channel viewer Cosim Sayid (‪@cosim-YouTube‬) helped point me in the right direction and did some additional research. Arthur Shepherd (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_...) was an American composer from Idaho who eventually taught at the New England Conservatory. He wrote many pieces, but this particular piece was commissioned for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's tenth anniversary. Mitropoulos used it touring in the 1948-9 season of the Minneapolis Symphony. I only found two references to the work - one in his archives at the University of Utah, and another in an article in Musical Quarterly (Apr., 1950). The Quarterly described it as “ingenious contrapuntal combinations of tunes and healthy fiddling produce a sure-fire piece.” The piece is a setting of George Pullen Jackson's Down East Spirituals. The violin work is really impressive near the end - healthy fiddling indeed. Technically this is one of if not the best recordings in the entire archive. It’s recorded at 15 inches per second which helps the fidelity - but I have other 15IPS recordings that don’t sound as good. What’s interesting is that Mr. Marchant marked this as “original recording” on the box - so that meant that he personally supervised the recording, it was not part of anything for radio like many of my other reels. I’m pretty sure this is the only recording of this in existence - very exciting. Technical info: Scotch 111 7” Reel 15 IPS