Orchestra Conductors At Leisure

Eugene Ormandy, conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony from 1931 until 1936, with his bicycle.

This photograph was taken in the Twin Cities during Ormandy’s Minneapolis tenure.

Mr. and Mrs. Ormandy were known to bicycle together around Minneapolis.


Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony from 1937 until 1949, with his backpack.

This photograph was taken in the Twin Cities during Mitropoulos’s Minneapolis tenure.

Mitropoulos was surely the lone backpacker in the Twin Cities in the 1940s. Many persons in the Twin Cities viewed Mitropoulos as somewhat of an oddball, although he was the most beloved conductor in Minnesota Orchestra history.


Antal Dorati, conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony from 1949 until 1960, at a University Of Minnesota football game.

This photograph was taken in the Twin Cities during Dorati’s Minneapolis tenure.

Well into the 1970s, persons dressed for University Of Minnesota football games.

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Osmo Vanska motorcycles.