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...orchestra. Arturo Toscanini's resignation, in 1936, had left the Philharmonic as limp as a discarded ventriloquist's dummy. His successors, British-born John Barbirolli and a string of guest conductors, had failed really to strike up the band. But when 49-year-old, grey-thatched Artur Rodzinski left the podium last week, the audience had heard some pretty musicianly music and even the skeptics were hopeful...
...hopes were based on several things. Boss Rodzinski had demanded, and got, absolute powers over the Philharmonic's artistic policies and personnel, free from all board-of-directors interference. Boss Rodzinski was also a conductor of long experience, particularly famed among musicians as an orchestra builder and repairer. He had, in 1933, developed the bush-league Cleveland Orchestra into one of the Middle West's two finest (the other: the Chicago Symphony). He had been picked by Arturo Toscanini in 1937 to organize and train the NBC Symphony. Last spring Rodzinski got ready for his New York...
Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia; 4 sides). One of Ravel's most vivid pieces brilliantly, if somewhat inelastically, performed...
...When Dr. Rodzinski was appointed permanent conductor of the Philharmonic earlier this season, he wasted no time in following the precedent which he had previously used in his first days in Cleveland, and which had been laid down earlier and even more dramatically by Koussevitsky in his first years in Boston. At any rate, when the smoke cleared, fourteen members of the orchestra, including Michel Piastro, the concertmaster, had been effectively purged, and all efforts to force the Board of Trustees or Rodzinski to re-engage them for another season had, for unknown reasons, weakly faded away. The Philharmonic...
Other first class orchestras have also graced the other waves with their presence during the past season. The Saturday night programs of the Boston Symphony under Koussevitsky were broadcast in part. The Philadelphia Symphony under Eugene Ormandy was heard on Friday, and the Cleveland groups under Rodzinski was heard on Saturday afternoons. Still another new program has been started recently at 11:30 o'clock on Tuesday nights called "Invitation to Music," and it promises to be more than just successful in carrying out its boast to introduce fine but relatively unknown works to radio audiences. But probably the highlight...