Word: artur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four months from now he expects to be in Buenos Aires, next month he expects to visit Albuquerque, next week he goes to Indianapolis, this week he was giving a concert in Carnegie Hall and celebrating his 57th birthday in Manhattan. Despite wartime transportation, Polish-born Artur Rubinstein, who in 40 years has traveled well over 1,000,000 miles, still trots the globe almost as fast and far as ever...
...board of directors last week filed out of their board room in Manhattan's Steinway Hall and announced the new holder of the most prestigious post in U.S. music. The post-musical director and conductor of the New York Philharmonic-will be filled by a Dalmatian-born Pole, Artur Rodzinski, bushy-haired, gangling present conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra...
Beethoven: Concerto No. 4 for Piano and Orchestra (Chicago Symphony, Frederick Stock conducting, with Artur Schnabel; Victor; 8 sides). Famed Beethoven Specialist Schnabel gives one of Beethoven's greatest concertos a thorough workout. As a teammate, the late Frederick Stock is somewhat heavy-footed. Result: though distinguished, it still leaves the prize to Schnabel's older Victor recording with the London Philharmonic, or to Pianist Walter Gieseking and the Saxon State Orchestra (Columbia...
...transform your community overnight into a center of art and enlightenment. However, if there is anything I can do. . . ." But the British maestro whipped the year-old Brooklyn Symphony into a little demonstration of Mozart and Beethoven that stole the musical show from the neighboring New York Philharmonic under Artur Rodzinski. "I prefer the smaller orchestras," sniffed Sir Thomas, "because they're better behaved. I find they're not possessed of this overweening self-satisfaction...
This week the Philharmonic, under gangling, Dalmatian-born Artur Rodzinski, celebrated its 100th anniversary with Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Weber's Oberon Overture, Ureli Corelli Hill would hardly have recognized his orchestra. Its budget had grown to $750,000 a year. Its chief conductors rated salaries of $50,000 a season and up. Oldest symphony orchestra in the U.S., third oldest in the world,† the Philharmonic was now the patriarch of some 225 other U.S. orchestras. So stable a feature of Manhattan had the Philharmonic become that only twice in a century had its concerts been...