With this post I am beginning a new series of verse (mostly limericks) celebrated musicians on the day of their birth. Today it's Dimitri Mitropoulos (1 March [O. S. 18 February] 1896 – 2 November 1960).
Wary of Greeks…
When conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos
Was at work this very metropolis
The patrons had fears
That his twelve tone premieres
Were signs of the coming apocalypse.
