Word: rodzinskis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...phone rang in the Chicago Symphony's office, and a familiar voice spoke all-too-familiar words: "Dr. Rodzinski cannot conduct rehearsal today." Assistant Conductor Tauno Hannikainen was hurriedly called in. He had just 24 hours to rehearse with the soloist (Pianist Myra Hess) and to start learning Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Several hours later, the phone rang again; once again it was Mrs. Rodzinski on the line: "Dr. Rodzinski is better; he will conduct the Shostakovich; Hannikainen can conduct the rest." But the orchestra's trustees had already heard enough. Midway through the concert next...
...backed the Chicago Symphony were good & mad at temperamental Artur Rodzinski; he had become a dissonance that wouldn't resolve. When he quit the New York Philharmonic in a huff last year (TIME, Feb. 17) he had exulted: "Since 21 years, Chicago is my goal." But once he had reached his goal, said the Chicago trustees, he had not only consistently played hooky, but he had caused confusion and expense in rehearsals with last-minute changes of program. The estimated deficit thus...
Mammon v. Music. Rodzinski, who is always surprising people with ecstatic references to his art and to his God (he is an ardent Buchmanite) had bumped head-on into mammon again. In spite of his unpredictable ways, many Chicagoans rushed to his defense last week. Their feeling was that maybe Rodzinski had thrown a little money around, but he had built the orchestra again into a first-rate symphony, using the same old hands (only the piano player and the first horn were new). He had given Chicagoans the finest opera they had heard in years: a concert version...
...York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stokowski, Rodzinski, Walter, and Damrosch--at different times, of course. It has Heifetz, Rubenstein, Pinza, Piatigorsky, and other artists. It has Vaughn Monroe and Harry James. It has an insipid plot that runs contrapuntal to Beethoven's "Fifth" and Tehaikovsky's "Piano Concerto"--you know ... "Tonight we love...
Maestro Artur Rodzinski of the Chicago Symphony took a pratfall by trying to take too good care of himself. He failed to turn up at 11 a.m. for the dress rehearsal of Tristan with Flagstad (see col. 3). He was still missing at 2:30 p.m. When he did appear, after another wait, he was still pale around the gills.. Mrs Rodzinski explained: "He took a sleeping pill that didn't work. Then he took another kind. In the morning he is sick. The doctor say the two kinds create a poison...