Word: rodzinskis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conductor Artur Rodzinski, haggard and unshaven, arrived in Salzburg three days late on his concert rehearsal schedule. Explaining his delay, he told friends that he and Moral Re-Armer Frank Buchman, attending an Oxford Group conference in Caux-sur-Montreux, Switzerland, had had a furious, long-drawn-out quarrel (Rodzinski did not say what about). Off to Rome on the next leg of his concert tour, the conductor asked a TIME correspondent to "spare me the doubtful honor of ever again calling me 'ardent Buchmanite...
...Rodzinski and Monteux. He was the first Negro to conduct a major U.S. orchestra (the Los Angeles Philharmonic). But somehow, the big breaks that have brought fame & fortune to less deserving composers have never seemed to come Still...
...Chicago Symphony's conductor, Dr. Artur Rodzinski...
...Knowing Ears. Raged the Chicago Tribune's fiery Critic Claudia Cassidy, who had plumped hard for hiring Rodzinski: "Chicago's musical future looks bleak indeed when a man like Rodzinski can be arbitrarily fired." Hearst's veteran Chicago Critic Ashton Stevens published a wire he had sent to Rodzinski: "I used to think the Capone mob retarded civilization in Chicago, but tonight I feel that the Orchestra Hall boys [the trustees] have made Al and his gang look like Robin Hood and his merry men. ... So they huddled upstairs and gave you the black sack. . . . God help...
...reporters asked Rodzinski about his plans. Said he: "I have no answer-now. All I know is that I dreamed of making Chicago the musical capital of the world. Later there will be plenty said-but maybe I won't say it. Vox populi, you know." Then flexing his biceps, he cracked: "Maybe I can go into wrestling. But I guess not, I am too old with my ticker...