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...will conduct the Shostakovich; Hannikainen can conduct the rest." But the orchestra's trustees had already heard enough. Midway through the concert next day, critics were notified of a hasty press conference in Orchestra Hall's upstairs office. The trustees' announcement was front-page news: Artur Rodzinski was fired...
...backed the Chicago Symphony were good & mad at temperamental Artur Rodzinski; he had become a dissonance that wouldn't resolve. When he quit the New York Philharmonic in a huff last year (TIME, Feb. 17) he had exulted: "Since 21 years, Chicago is my goal." But once he had reached his goal, said the Chicago trustees, he had not only consistently played hooky, but he had caused confusion and expense in rehearsals with last-minute changes of program. The estimated deficit thus...
...pretends to be a rich girl who loves music and can see. He falls for her again but this time neither of them is happy, for both feel that the blind girl is being treated shabbily. At last Dana's concerto is played in Carnegie Hall (with Artur Rubinstein at the piano); he hears the music the blind girl inspired, and the love interest gets straightened...
Another Russian had the best-selling single classical album. Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 sold well in two versions: one recorded by Rachmaninoff himself 15 years before his death, and one by Artur Rubinstein. All year long, Rachmaninoff's 47-year-old piece had seesawed for first place with Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, and finally...
...Maestro Artur Rodzinski of the Chicago Symphony took a pratfall by trying to take too good care of himself. He failed to turn up at 11 a.m. for the dress rehearsal of Tristan with Flagstad (see col. 3). He was still missing at 2:30 p.m. When he did appear, after another wait, he was still pale around the gills.. Mrs Rodzinski explained: "He took a sleeping pill that didn't work. Then he took another kind. In the morning he is sick. The doctor say the two kinds create a poison...