Word: rodzinskis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next season the Philharmonic's directors decided on a similar setup. They signed up four of the conductors who appeared this year (Walter, Rodzinski, Mitropoulos, Barbirolli) and a new one, Fritz Reiner of the Pittsburgh Symphony. They also invited Toscanini. Last week, the morning after the second Beethoven concert, came good news. The maestro's son, Walter Toscanini, walked into the Philharmonic office, told Associate Manager Bruno Zirato that his father had decided to accept. He will direct the Philharmonic's first two weeks next fall...
...brilliant musical propaganda stunt was pulled off last week by Polish-born Conductor Artur Rodzinski and his Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. From the works of Hitler's favorite composer, Wagner, Dr. Rodzinski exhumed a stirring overture, Rule, Britannia (based on the tune of the famed British patriotic song of the same name), dedicated to the British by Wagner in 1837, and gave it the musical works. By way of introducing it to his audience, Dr. Rodzinski said he doubted that the Nazis remembered the existence of their idol's opus...
Kern: Show Boat: Scenario for Orchestra (Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinski; Columbia; 6 sides). The Show Boat tunes, some of the bravest in U.S. operetta, were dressed up last year by their composer in symphonic finery at the persuasion of Conductor Rodzinski. The resulting potpourri is lush, places Jerome Kern no whit nearer Beethoven as a symphonist, but Rodzinski's silky performance makes even more apparent Kern's Schubertian gift for melody...
...Deum composed in 1936 by the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Budapest's emancipation from Turkey. The program -by the Cleveland Orchestra -was short-waved "live" from Cleveland's Severance Hall, reached Bataan at churchtime Sunday morning. Said Conductor Artur Rodzinski, introducing it: "To you, our salute and our prayers." Said Commentator Kay Halle: "In such moments a hymn of praise and thanksgiving can say more than any words...
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinski; Columbia; 12 sides). For all its old-hat grotesqueness, this underrated masterpiece well deserves the pulsing performance which Rodzinski gives it, also merits a better recording...