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...Artur Rodzinski, famed conductor, will take over the New York Philharmonic-Symphony orchestra next season. Last week, preparing for the 1943-44 season, Rodzinski fired 14 musicians, including the first fiddle, Mishel Piastro. Service of those fired ranged from one to 34 years...
Debussy: La Mer (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia; 6 sides). One of Debussy's most mellifluous tone paintings is given a superb performance and recording...
...Philharmonic's board hopes that Rodzinski will provide the solution of a problem that has vexed Manhattan critics and audiences for six years: how to make the Philharmonic sound like the near million dollars a year it costs to run. Since the great Arturo Toscanini left in 1936 the Philharmonic has slipped from first place to a weak third or fourth among U.S. orchestras...
...Koussevitzky, Beecham and Walter were all in their 60s, and Conductor Toscanini was 75. The directors decided on a younger man, hesitated over the name of Dimitri Mitropoulos, glabrous Greek conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony, and finally gave the job to the less brilliant, much tougher, 49-year-old Rodzinski...
Biggest factor in the choice of Conductor Rodzinski was probably his reputation as an orchestra builder. In ten years he raised the Cleveland Orchestra from a second-rank outfit to one that threatened to take the Midwest championship from the late Frederick Stock's Chicago Symphony. When, in 1937, Arturo Toscanini wanted a man to assemble and weld to gether the NBC Symphony for him, he picked Rodzinski...