Word: rodzinskis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia; 4 sides). One of Ravel's most vivid pieces brilliantly, if somewhat inelastically, performed...
...When Dr. Rodzinski was appointed permanent conductor of the Philharmonic earlier this season, he wasted no time in following the precedent which he had previously used in his first days in Cleveland, and which had been laid down earlier and even more dramatically by Koussevitsky in his first years in Boston. At any rate, when the smoke cleared, fourteen members of the orchestra, including Michel Piastro, the concertmaster, had been effectively purged, and all efforts to force the Board of Trustees or Rodzinski to re-engage them for another season had, for unknown reasons, weakly faded away. The Philharmonic...
Other first class orchestras have also graced the other waves with their presence during the past season. The Saturday night programs of the Boston Symphony under Koussevitsky were broadcast in part. The Philadelphia Symphony under Eugene Ormandy was heard on Friday, and the Cleveland groups under Rodzinski was heard on Saturday afternoons. Still another new program has been started recently at 11:30 o'clock on Tuesday nights called "Invitation to Music," and it promises to be more than just successful in carrying out its boast to introduce fine but relatively unknown works to radio audiences. But probably the highlight...
Beethoven: Symphony No. I (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conduct ing; Columbia; 8 sides). Fifth on the list of currently available versions, Rodzinski's is rather rough, undistinguished, and not to be compared with the fine interpretations of Toscanini (Victor) and Weingartner (Columbia...
...Some observers," reported the Charlotte Observer, "inclined to the opinion that the delayed-baggage incident served to inspire, rather than depress, them." All agreed that Conductor Rodzinski had more than measured up to the emergency. Happily - for it was no dream - he had discovered in time the absence of a couple of influential trouser buttons...