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Debt Played When Wing Commander John Wooldridge shot down his fifth German plane, the next move was up to Conductor Artur Rodzinski. The New York Philharmonic's genial maestro had made a promise: to give the 33-year-old R.A.F. flyer's new symphony, which he showed Rodzinski last spring, one performance for every five enemy planes bagged (TIME, Aug. 28). Last week the bargain was fulfilled: the Philharmonic played the premiere of Commander Wooldridge's Solemn Hymn for Victory-and the Wing Commander appeared in person to take his bows. Critics and audience agreed that...
...Arthur Rodzinski, brush-haired, Dalmatian-born conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, played conventional Bach and Beethoven for the opening concert of the orchestra's 103rd season in Carnegie Hall, then gave convention the boot by playing an encore-George Gershwin's jazzy / Got Rhythm. Although the first Philharmonic encore in many years brought down the house, it struck the New York Times's staid music critic, Olin Downes, as "an unwise impulse...
...Artur Rodzinski, genial, brush-headed conductor of the New York Philharmonic promised R.A.F. Wing Commander John Wooldridge last April one performance of Wooldridge's symphonic poem "Constellations" for every five German planes he shot down. Last week 33-year-old Wooldridge bagged his fifth, and the R.A.F. promised him leave to go to Manhattan. Cabled Conductor Rodzinski: HAVE SCHEDULED THREE PERFORMANCES "CONSTELLATIONS...
...Carnegie Hall audience that CBS had not been gypped. The symphony rolled out on the U.S. air waves, streamlined and spectacular. It had all the usual Shostakovich features, including special, de luxe, noncollapsible climaxes, probably the most efficient roof-raisers of their type known to the trade. Conductor Artur Rodzinski put it through its power-dives with a veteran test pilot's skill. At times the orchestra glittered with satire; at others it seemed to strum itself like a giant balalaika...
...Artur Rodzinski, conductor of the New York Philharmonic, anathematized jazz. Said he: "With so many homes broken as a result of the family head serving in the armed forces, parental supervision is lacking, and this type of music leads to war degeneracy." For the rebuttal up rose Leopold Stokowski: "Some foreigners do not understand how rich the U.S. is in folk music. . . ." Said Frank Sinatra (whose worshipers had been labeled "pitiful cases" by Rodzinski): "Nuts! . . . After all, I grew up in a jazz craze, and I did all right...