Word: rodzinsky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dudley S. Blossom stepped forward and said he would be the big backer. Conductor Sokoloffs contract was not renewed. Mrs. Hughes's resignation was accepted. She was set to handing out routine publicity notices. Two guest conductors were tried out: England's Sir Hamilton Harty and Artur Rodzinski, the wavy-haired, stoop-shouldered Pole who for four years had conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic...
Last week in Severance Hall, Rodzinski began as regular conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra. The audience received him royally, stood up for his entrance; the musicians, glad for any change which may mean steady pay again, slapped their bows against their fiddle strings. Rodzinski in return gave a performance of Brahms's First Symphony which became the musical talk of the town. New and exciting to Clevelanders was the way he often puts down his baton to shape the music with his bare hands, a mannerism he picked up from Leopold Stokowski...
Philadelphia's fair-haired maestro discovered Rodzinski nine years ago in Warsaw, a quiet, determined young man of 30 who was conducting at the opera house instead of following the law career for which his parents had educated him. Stokowski invited Rodzinski to be his assistant in Philadelphia. He stayed there four years, then went to Los Angeles which began to have its financial worries last winter when William Andrews Clark Jr. announced that he could support the Or chestra for only one more season (TIME, Oct. 30). Los Angeles like Cleveland needed a new conductor for the sake...
...American, all contemporary, like a newspaper published for today in any big city of these United States, was the program played by the Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Dr. Arthur Rodzinski as a tribute to his newly adopted country and sponsored by Pro-Musica at the Philharmonic Auditorium last night...
...hair. The smoothest pate in the orchestra belongs to Alfred Friese, oldtime tympanist of the New York Philharmonic, whose pupil, young black-mopped Saul Goodman, now stands behind the kettledrums in Toscanini's orchestra.) Each concert has a different guest-conductor. Some of this season's guests: Gershwin. Reiner, Rodzinski, Stokowski. Stock, Harty...