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Chief credit for both the production and the coup belonged to Veteran Conductor Artur Rodzinski. La Scala had arranged with the Soviet Ministry of Culture to produce next season a revised version of the opera (on which, the ministry said, Prokofiev had been making "technical changes"). Conductor Rodzinski, who now lives in Florence, had an idea that he could beat La Scala to the punch. He remembered that the Metropolitan Opera had once planned to produce War and Peace and that Manhattan's Leeds Music Corp. had a copy of the score...
A.F.L. Musicians Boss James Caesar Petrillo was deeply annoyed when he heard that one of his boys, Conductor Artur Rodzinski, had made some unauthorized (by Petrillo) recordings in Vienna last March. Now, getting wind that Maestro Rodzinski might cut a few more longhair platters in Europe, Little Caesar thundered: "If he wants to scab, he'd better get out of the union. And if he leaves...he won't be worth a plugged nickel. He'd walk out on the stage and [our members] would walk out on him. That's what would happen...
...Czarist days who winds up in Siberia. But the Kremlin had banned Lady Macbeth in 1937, and for that reason Nabokov ran into trouble with his project. Even though the opera was performed at the Metropolitan in 1935, there was no score available in the U.S. Nabokov cabled Artur Rodzinski, who had conducted the performances at the Met. Rodzinski replied that he had surrendered his copy long ago, after repeated requests from the Soviet embassy. Finally, Nabokov found a copy in Vienna. Now Paris will get to hear a concert excerpt played by the Berlin RIAS (American zone radio) orchestra...
Long after their ruckus with temperamental Artur Rodzinski (TIME, Feb. 17, 1947), the directors of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra seemed unwilling to give full-conductor powers to anybody else. Staggered by guest conductors and triumvirates, the U.S.'s oldest (108 years) and once finest orchestra lost much of its poise and polish. Last spring the directors finally overcame their hesitation, picked Minneapolis' Greek-born Dimitri Mitropoulos, who shared the season with Leopold Stokowski last year...
After New York, Rodzinski had gone to Chicago. He had lasted one year. Last week, after eleven guest conductors in two seasons, the Chicago Symphony Association voted its baton to a relative newcomer to the U.S.: mop-haired Czech Conductor Rafael Kubelik, 35, who made a hit as a guest conductor last fall (TIME...