Word: rodzinskis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Rodzinski stopped, flushed and spent, there was half a minute of pregnant, almost audibly gestating silence. When the Philharmonic's board chairman finally spoke, it was as if a thin sheet of ice had been carefully cracked. And what, said he, had Mr. Rodzinski decided? "Give me 24 hours to think it over," said Rodzinski, and left for home...
There he discussed matters with Halina, his attractive wife-and with his conscience. (Conductor Rodzinski is a Buch-manite, and believes that he gets "guidance" in all his decisions.) Two hours later, he sent a telegram to the board chairman-and tipped off the press too. He had quit...
From here & there over the country telegrams cried bravo. In the midst of all these exclamation points came a lone period: a terse message from the Philharmonic board, releasing Rodzinski not at the end of the season, as he had asked, but at once. His spirits only soared higher. Elatedly, he jounced his two-year-old son's big clown doll on his knee and told it the news; he grabbed his 75-year-old mother around the waist, waltzed her around the room and cried exultantly: "Babushka, now we are going to Chicago...
...Knows Why. What made him throw over the biggest job in his life? Rodzinski's answer was that God had told him to: "God leads me. I don't know how He does. Through so many little coincidences I know the Big Boss is working through me. He tells me so clearly, like a bell-this time it rang like Big Ben. Gosh, He is smart...
...command had certainly not come from Mammon. From at least $85,000 a year in New York ($60,000 salary, the rest from records and radio), Rodzinski would be getting less than $50,000 in Chicago...