Sorcerer’s Apprentice

John Richardson's riveting memoir about growing up in England and, at twenty-five, beginning his twelve-year adventure with the controversial art collector Douglas Cooper.

Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960) was a Greek conductor who came to America in the 1930s and made many recordings with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Like Wilhelm Furtwangler of Arturo Toscanini, Mitropoulos' height of popularity came just before the advent of modern sound technology, so that many of Mitropoulos' finest recordings are marred by distortion and background noises that may make those recordings practically un-listenable to some classical music enthusiasts (although the new Sony Mitropoulos set has advertised that most of those very rough recordings have been "remastered").

The London Philharmonic Orchestra (English: London Philharmonic Orchestra, LPO) is one of the leading symphony orchestras in the United Kingdom. The orchestra's main venue is the Royal Festival Hall, built in 1949; in addition, since 1964, the London Philharmonic Orchestra has been the main collective of the Glyndebourne Festival.