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Congratulations upon your making Conductor Artur Rodzinski the man of the week instead of Manager Arthur Judson...
Careful study of your story on Artur Rodzinski & New York Philharmonic [TIME, Feb. 17] confirms my publicly stated belief that concert music must stand on its own feet financially before it can break away from control by interests not directly concerned with artistic integrity of performance. . . . Conductors should conduct-not diplomatize, socialize & partyize for political purposes...
Bruno Walter took over the job that Artur Rodzinski no longer wanted. At 70, Walter became the one-year "musical adviser" of New York's Philharmonic-Symiphony-a job he had turned down four years ago "because...
Holy Terror. Artur Rodzinski is a professional, in the strongest sense of the word: he is a professed musician. He regards music as his calling, and himself as consecrated to it. His devotion to his calling is selfless-though his selflessness is sometimes as hard to take as another man's selfishness...
...Artur was put at the piano at 6, became a page-turner at Lvov concerts at 15 and practiced furiously five and six hours a day. Once when his big brother Richard, trying to study medicine, shouted that he couldn't stand the noise, Artur slashed Richard's hand with a saber. "Our house," as he looks back on it, "was a madhouse." He became infatuated with the opera, joined the claque to get in free...