Word: rodzinskis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor (Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 12 sides). Except for the serene adagio movement, Rodzinski's treatment is heavyhanded. Performance: fair. Recording: good...
Born. To Artur Rodzinski, 51, thick-thatched Polish-American conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra; and Halina Lilpop Rodzinski, 40, his handsome, sunny-haired second wife: their first (his second) child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Richard. Weight...
...music. It was a labor of love for the adopted country he yearned to understand and be a part of. Last week Composer Foss proudly heard his first big cantata, The Prairie, performed in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall by four competent singers, the Westminster Choir and Artur Rodzinski's Philharmonic-Symphony. It was the glossiest performance his work ever...
Debt Played When Wing Commander John Wooldridge shot down his fifth German plane, the next move was up to Conductor Artur Rodzinski. The New York Philharmonic's genial maestro had made a promise: to give the 33-year-old R.A.F. flyer's new symphony, which he showed Rodzinski last spring, one performance for every five enemy planes bagged (TIME, Aug. 28). Last week the bargain was fulfilled: the Philharmonic played the premiere of Commander Wooldridge's Solemn Hymn for Victory-and the Wing Commander appeared in person to take his bows. Critics and audience agreed that...
...Arthur Rodzinski, brush-haired, Dalmatian-born conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, played conventional Bach and Beethoven for the opening concert of the orchestra's 103rd season in Carnegie Hall, then gave convention the boot by playing an encore-George Gershwin's jazzy / Got Rhythm. Although the first Philharmonic encore in many years brought down the house, it struck the New York Times's staid music critic, Olin Downes, as "an unwise impulse...