Word: rodzinski
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operatic rage of Soviet Russia was having its U. S. premiere by the Cleveland Orchestra, Conductor Artur Rodzinski and the troupe of White Russian singers which calls itself the Art of Musical Russia, Inc. Five days later the same performers gave Lady Macbeth in Manhattan. Audiences in both cities were equally impressed with the naivete of Comrade Shostakovich. The 28-year-old composer, who looks like a schoolboy with thatched hair and horn-rimmed glasses, had borrowed his story from Nikolai Leskov, a long-dead author who made his murderess a fiend incarnate. Shostakovich read of her crimes and promptly...
Conductor Artur Rodzinski, who obtained the first U. S. rights to Lady Macbeth, heard it six times in Russia last summer. Last week he called it "one of the most important contributions to music brought out in the past 25 years." The ardor of his performance proved that he meant what he had said...
Five conductors will have gone to bat with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony before great Arturo Toscanini returns late in January. Otto Klemperer, Hans Lange and Werner Janssen have had their turns. Bruno Walter's begins next week. Last week's Philharmonic guest was Artur Rodzinski, popular conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra...
Conductor Rodzinski's début concert was the loudest if not the loveliest that New Yorkers have heard this season. He swayed excitedly from side to side, made fierce faces at the players to bring out every last theatric effect. Scriabin's Divine Poem, stunningly bombastic, compelled an ovation for the hard-working Clevelander. But Rodzinski had still louder music: two entr'actes from Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk...
...awaits the Shostakovich opera which will be given this winter in three U. S. cities.* Soviets regard the 28-year-old composer as their ablest musicmaker. His murderous heroine is really a lovable young woman driven to her crimes by incompatible bourgeois surroundings. One sample played last week by Rodzinski follows the scene in which Ekaterina (Lady Macbeth) murders her father-in-law. The second describes two drunken moujiks as they discover her husband's body hidden in a cellar. When audiences can see the spooky doings on the stage they may be impressed by the Shostakovich screeching...