Word: rodzinskis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shock-haired, Polish-American Artur Rodzinski, conducting the Cleveland Orchestra, last week had his packjammed audience humming with him. Everybody knew the music - from Jerome Kern's classic musicomedy, Show Boat. Conductor Rodzinski, who rates the Show Boat music "true" and "great" U.S. song, last summer invited Composer Kern to give it the symphonic works. The result is called Scenario for Orchestra...
...guests: Stokowski, Bruno Walter, Artur Rodzinski, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Sergei Koussevitzky, Walter Damrosch, Fritz Busch, Eugene Goossens...
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 in F Major (Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinski; Columbia; 8 sides; $4.50). Soviet Composer Shostakovich's exuberant, revolutionary thumps and trumpet calls needed an up-to-date needling, get it here...
...soloist trade. It hires soloists by the bushel, and ladies out Tableaus sums for them. As a result--and here is the rub--it must budget, and in so doing cheats the public with second and third-rate conductors. The substitution of some first-rank conductors like Rodzinski and Beecham for the interminable Golschmanns, Smalleness, and Von Hoogstrateus, (who obviously have only got their jobs through Curuegie Hall politics), would take the curse off a concert without soloists, and the public might begin to go in for Brahms and Becthoven a little more, Hcifetz and Rubinstein a little less...
Alban Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Louis Krasner with the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinski; Columbia; six sides). Much of the music of Viennese Composer Berg, who died in 1935 (a disciple of Atonalist Arnold Schonberg), sounds like tortured, caterwauling doubletalk. But in this concerto, his atonalism is for once eloquent and heartfelt; it is Composer Berg's elegy on the death of his friend Manon Gropius, daughter of famed Architect Walter Gropius. The Clevelanders and Modernist Krasner give a stirring performance...