Word: rodzinskis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nonetheless, the picture has a certain documentary interest. In it, posterity may see how many of today's most prominent musicians-some good, some not so good -look and act at close range, under weirdly confused, commercial circumstances. These artists include Damrosch, Heifetz, Pinza, Pons, Rodzinski, Rubinstein, Stokowski...
Congratulations upon your making Conductor Artur Rodzinski the man of the week instead of Manager Arthur Judson...
Careful study of your story on Artur Rodzinski & New York Philharmonic [TIME, Feb. 17] confirms my publicly stated belief that concert music must stand on its own feet financially before it can break away from control by interests not directly concerned with artistic integrity of performance. . . . Conductors should conduct-not diplomatize, socialize & partyize for political purposes...
...undersigned members of the board of directors of Columbia Concerts resent your article on Rodzinski in which Arthur Judson, Columbia's president, is referred to as "King Arthur," and by implication the owner of [this] company and its autocrat...
...Rodzinski's musical sterility (to continue a conceit begun by Rodzinski when he described Stokowski's conducting as "sexual") has time & again made the normally oppressive U.S. Rubber Co.'s "Science Talks" over the air seem the height of esthetic cultivation by comparison. Thus my joy was unbounded when Rodzinski "resigned." This joy was snuffed out, however, by the announcement that he would pilot the Chicago Symphony next season...