Word: rodzinskis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the Philharmonic, under gangling, Dalmatian-born Artur Rodzinski, celebrated its 100th anniversary with Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Weber's Oberon Overture, Ureli Corelli Hill would hardly have recognized his orchestra. Its budget had grown to $750,000 a year. Its chief conductors rated salaries of $50,000 a season and up. Oldest symphony orchestra in the U.S., third oldest in the world,† the Philharmonic was now the patriarch of some 225 other U.S. orchestras. So stable a feature of Manhattan had the Philharmonic become that only twice in a century had its concerts been...
Dmitri Shostakovich: Fifth Symphony (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia; 10 sides). Most popular of Fire Warden Shostakovich's big, embattled symphonies, the Fifth has already been recorded by Stokowski and the Philadelphians for Victor. The Clevelanders do a brilliant job, but Stokowski's recording is still tops...
Battle Royal. Before the first strip of film had gone into the enlarger, three topflight U.S. conductors, all Shostakovich champions-sleek, platinum-haired Leopold Stokowski, the Cleveland Orchestra's Artur Rodzinski, Boston's Serge Koussevitzky-were locked in a polite battle royal for the glory of conducting the premi...
Leopold Stokowski, who had hopefully dashed East from Hollywood, went crestfallen back to the West Coast; Rodzinski had not even had a lookin. Hurriedly NBC augmented its Symphony Orchestra to the extra-large size the performance required. Night after night, nearsighted Maestro Toscanini, who conducts from memory, never from notes, sat up with his nose buried in the score...
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Cleveland Orchestra conducted ) by Artur Rodzinski; Columbia; 8 sides). The first up-to-date recording of this popular classic. But Rodzinski's steely precision makes Mendelssohn's airy fairies march like storm troopers...