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...York was open warfare: even before he hit town he had fired 14 players, including Concertmaster Mishel Piastre...
...summary: Rockwood Foster (H) defeated Mishel (N), 3-0; Mazel (N) defeated Bill Wightman (H), 3-0; Parker Francis (H) defeated Shapira (N), 3-1; Glazier (N) defeated George Stevens (H), 3-1; Gruber (N) defeated Dave Shepherd...
...finest (the other: the Chicago Symphony). He had been picked by Arturo Toscanini in 1937 to organize and train the NBC Symphony. Last spring Rodzinski got ready for his New York job by suddenly firing or pensioning 17 of the Philharmonic's most important musicians (including Concertmaster Mishel Piastre and practically every soloist in the brass and reed sections). It was obvious that the orchestra was in for a complete overhaul...
Artur Rodzinski, famed conductor, will take over the New York Philharmonic-Symphony orchestra next season. Last week, preparing for the 1943-44 season, Rodzinski fired 14 musicians, including the first fiddle, Mishel Piastro. Service of those fired ranged from one to 34 years...
Last week, while the Philharmonic's pudgy head violinist, Mishel Piastro, laid down his fiddle and picked up the baton to conduct the orchestral accompaniment, Conductor Enesco laid down his baton and picked up a fiddle to play the solo. Carnegie Hall's audience and the critical pundits found his fiddling in Bach's Concerto in A Minor for Violin and String Orchestra the last word in intelligent interpretation. Composer Enesco will again play a double part on next week's Philharmonic programs when he conducts his own Rumanian Rhapsody...