Word: rodzinskis
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...Czech of the hour was the occupied nation's foremost living composer, Bohuslav Martinu, now of Manhattan. In Cleveland (which has one of the largest Czech populations to be found in any U.S. city), Erich Leinsdorf conducted the premiere of Martinu's Second Symphony. In Manhattan, Artur Rodzinski conducted the premiere of a Martinu symphonic poem called Memorial to Lidice. In Philadelphia, Eugene Ormandy was rehearsing a third new Martinu composition, a Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, with the help of duo-Pianists Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff. In Boston, Sergei Koussevitzky was planning a December premiere...
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, as interpreted by Artur Rodzinski and the New York Philharmonic, gladdened Herald Tribune Critic Virgil Thomson, who observed: "I suspect there may be some protests from adolescents about the removal of all traces of imminent sexuality from the work of a man who has been for so long their especial comfort. But I am sure that many musicians of my age will be glad to welcome [the composer] back to the adult fold...
...Artur Rodzinski has had a sketchily schooled career. The son of a Polish army surgeon, he was born in Spalato on the coast of Dalmatia. When he was still a child, his family moved to Lwow, Poland, where he took a few piano lessons and got a job as head of the claque at the Opera House. But his father had cut out a soberer career than music for his son-Artur studied law at the University of Lwow...
World War I interrupted this by mustering him as an Austrian soldier. Severely wounded by shrapnel, he resumed his law studies in Vienna, took his doctor's degree by which he is sometimes addressed today but which has no connection with music. Then revolution blasted eastern Europe. Rodzinski went to the Ukraine as an Austrian agent in charge of food imports. Returning stability found him back in Lwow, as a price fixer on eggs, meat and vegetables. In the evenings he played the piano in a honkytonk...
...most promising of the remaining U.S. orchestras as the season opened were: the Chicago (Belgian-born Désiré De-fauw succeeded the late Frederick Stock) ; Cleveland (Austrian-born Erich Leinsdorf, formerly of the Metropolitan Opera House, succeeded the Philharmonic's Rodzinski); Minneapolis (Dimitri Mitropoulos) ; San Francisco (Pierre Monteux) ; Cincinnati (Eugene Goossens); St. Louis (Vladimir Golschmann); Detroit (U.S.-born Karl Krueger had managed to pull things together again after the orchestra became the temporary charge of Sam's Cut-Rate, Inc.-TIME, Oct. 19); Los Angeles (U.S.-born Alfred Wallenstein succeeded a string of guests); National Symphony...