Word: rodzinskis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bruno Walter took over the job that Artur Rodzinski no longer wanted. At 70, Walter became the one-year "musical adviser" of New York's Philharmonic-Symiphony-a job he had turned down four years ago "because...
...Mitropoulos, Cleveland's George Szell, Paris' Charles Munch and Hollywood Bowl's Leopold Stokowski. All but Stokowski (who once was) are clients of music's Mr. Big, Arthur Judson, the Philharmonic's manager. Judson thus had a firmer hold on the throne than before Rodzinski abdicated (TIME...
Holy Terror. Artur Rodzinski is a professional, in the strongest sense of the word: he is a professed musician. He regards music as his calling, and himself as consecrated to it. His devotion to his calling is selfless-though his selflessness is sometimes as hard to take as another man's selfishness...
...Rodzinski played the piano in a cabaret to support his first wife and their small son. It was a big break when the local opera director let him conduct Verdi's Ernani: "The smell of the scenery, the makeup, the wigs . . . you can't get it out of your system. Ask any opera man." In 1924 Leopold Stokowski, visiting Warsaw, met Rodzinski, later hired him as assistant conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. When Rodzinski reached the U.S., the first thing "Stokie" did was to run his fingers through Rodzinski's slick and parted hair, "to give...
After four years in Los Angeles, Rodzinski quarreled with the manager and headed for Cleveland. Toscanini heard one of his Cleveland broadcasts, and recommended him for the 1937 Salzburg Festival. And when Toscanini agreed to head the projected NBC Symphony, he insisted that Rodzinski should recruit the players...