Word: rodzinski
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago, Violinist Jascha Heifetz asked Composer Walton to write him a violin concerto. Last spring Composer Walton delivered the completed manuscript at Heifetz' Connecticut estate, and last week in Cleveland Violinist Heifetz, with fidgety Artur Rodzinski's streamlined Cleveland Orchestra as background, gave the new concerto its first performance. Well-woven as a Paisley shawl, Composer Walton's opus proved warm as well as intricate. And though Cleveland's dowagers found its texture scratchier than crepe, Cleveland's critics fingered its solid warp & woof with enthusiasm. Said Clevelander Rodzinski, rolling a long cigaret...
There are Polish names which have significance in contemporary U. S. life: Paul Muni in Hollywood; Baton-wielders Stokowski, Rodzinski; Singers Kiepura, Ganna Walska; Pianist Josef Hofmann; Engineers Pawlowski, Modjeski; Economist Mizwa; Editor Pialkowicz...
...Artur Rodzinski (Sot. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony in Michael Leonidovitch Starokadomsky's Concerto for Orchestra, Glinka's Overture to Russian and Ludmilla, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, Stravinsky's Firebird suite...
After a rehearsal of the Portland, Ore. stadium Philharmonic orchestra, Cleveland's Dr. Artur Rodzinski went to spend a day with his favorite animals: goats. On the way out he discussed them. Excerpt: "Goats are the sweetest pets, better than a dog. No, no, no, only the gentleman goat smells bad. You must put him in a pen half a mile away from the lady goats...
...after Composer Piston's symphony had its première, a much more widely heralded piece of music was broadcast by the NBC Symphony under Conductor Artur Rodzinski: Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Composer of the famed opera Lady Macbeth of Mzensk and onetime white-haired boy of Soviet music, Shostakovich had lain for two years in official outer darkness, his opera banned and his Fourth Symphony confiscated because of "Leftist" modernistic tendencies (TIME, April 4). First of his works to be O. K.'d by Moscow critics since his downfall, the Fifth Symphony...