Word: rodzinsky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since last November conductors at the New York Philharmonic-Symphony have included an Englishman, a Russian, a Rumanian and a Mexican (TIME. Nov. 16). Last week.a Pole, Artur Rodzinski, stepped up to finish out the last eight weeks of a season which Philharmonic devotees consider has almost compensated by its variety for the absence of Maestro Arturo Toscanini. Next season, with John Barbirolli on the podium throughout, promises to be sound and satisfying but not eventful...
Conductor Rodzinski has made unusual progress since he arrived in the U. S. twelve years ago. In 1924 Leopold Stokowski discovered him in Warsaw, a quiet young man of 30 who was conducting at the opera house instead of practicing the law his parents had intended him for. Next year he went to Philadelphia with Stokowski, was assistant conductor there for four years. He spent four more conducting in Los Angeles until in 1933 the Los Angeles Orchestra began to have trouble. William Andrews Clark Jr., who had supported the orchestra for 14 years, announced he could do so only...
Though last week was the first time he had performed in Carnegie Hall, Chavez led the Boston Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra last spring, conducted three WPA concerts last March. He was scheduled to lead the Philharmonic again this week, after which he will be succeeded there by Artur Rodzinski...
...increased his reputation when he mounted Mozart's Escape from the Seraglio and Gluck's Alceste in Florence's Boboli Garden last year. Hardly had he stepped off the boat in Manhattan last month when he was rushed to Cleveland to stage Elektra under Conductor Artur Rodzinski...
...This week the big orchestras in Cleveland, Cincinnati and Chicago will start their seasons, under such proven leaders as Polish Artur Rodzinski, British Eugene Goossens and square old Frederick Stock, born a German but for many a year a proud Chicago institution. St. Louis' hopes are high again for a series of concerts under Vladimir Golschmann, the sleek Franco-Russian who has built himself a strong Missouri following. The Los Angeles Philharmonic was driving for money last week and awaiting the return of towering Otto Klemperer. San Francisco stages its opera season first, but by midwinter the rejuvenated symphony...