Word: artur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...season was to last ten weeks instead of the usual six, promised 21 operas in all. Though French and Italian operas predominate, two complete cycles of The Ring are to be sung and Wilhelm Furtwängler will conduct them both. Besides Beecham, conductors include such notables as Artur Rodzinski, John Barbirolli, Fritz Reiner. Francesco Sain. Eugene Goossens will conduct the world premiere of his Don Juan of Manara, an opera he wrote to the late Arnold Bennett's libretto. Lawrence Tibbett will have the title role, after making his European debut in Tosca...
...guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic, Polish Artur Rodzinski has shown himself a diversified program builder. Six weeks ago he promised New York a premiere of Polish Karol Szymanowski's latest work Harnasie. One night last week Harnasie was presented in Carnegie Hall. People who did not read the newspapers were startled to find black-bordered inserts in their programs, suggesting that the premiere be considered a memorial since Karol Szymanowski had died two days before...
...news two months ago to devotees of serious radio music was the engagement of Arturo Toscanini to return from retirement and broadcast next winter with the NBC Symphony Orchestra (TIME. Feb. 15). Three weeks ago Manhattan music lovers heard one of the greatest concerts of the season when Artur Rodzinski conducted his special version of Elektra. And last week NBC created another happy radio flurry by also appointing Rodzinski to its concert podium and by making public plans for a whole year of fine music...
...season, their first Elektra since 1932. Because it is full of furious, hard-driven music, because it is pathologically concerned with adultery and blood, many consider the opera less appealing than Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. Others find its eery, passionate songs unforgettable. These were more than grateful when Artur Rodzinski announced he would put on a concert version of the opera with the Philharmonic-Symphony he has been guest-conducting all month (TIME, March 8), looked forward to hearing Gertrude Kappel sing again the part she had made a masterpiece four seasons ago. At the last moment, however, Soprano...
Pauly was to leave this week for Prague. At the Coronation she will' hear Artur Rodzinski conduct again. Critics who heaped praise on Soprano Pauly last week did not forget Conductor Rodzinski whose eloquent musicianship made Elektra one of the great triumphs of the season. An other honor came to Rodzinski two days later when Ambassador Jerzy Potocki pinned on him the Polonia Restituta, Poland's highest order of merit...