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...directors last week filed out of their board room in Manhattan's Steinway Hall and announced the new holder of the most prestigious post in U.S. music. The post-musical director and conductor of the New York Philharmonic-will be filled by a Dalmatian-born Pole, Artur Rodzinski, bushy-haired, gangling present conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra...
...your community overnight into a center of art and enlightenment. However, if there is anything I can do. . . ." But the British maestro whipped the year-old Brooklyn Symphony into a little demonstration of Mozart and Beethoven that stole the musical show from the neighboring New York Philharmonic under Artur Rodzinski. "I prefer the smaller orchestras," sniffed Sir Thomas, "because they're better behaved. I find they're not possessed of this overweening self-satisfaction...
This week the Philharmonic, under gangling, Dalmatian-born Artur Rodzinski, celebrated its 100th anniversary with Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Weber's Oberon Overture, Ureli Corelli Hill would hardly have recognized his orchestra. Its budget had grown to $750,000 a year. Its chief conductors rated salaries of $50,000 a season and up. Oldest symphony orchestra in the U.S., third oldest in the world,† the Philharmonic was now the patriarch of some 225 other U.S. orchestras. So stable a feature of Manhattan had the Philharmonic become that only twice in a century had its concerts been...
Dmitri Shostakovich: Fifth Symphony (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia; 10 sides). Most popular of Fire Warden Shostakovich's big, embattled symphonies, the Fifth has already been recorded by Stokowski and the Philadelphians for Victor. The Clevelanders do a brilliant job, but Stokowski's recording is still tops...
Leopold Stokowski, who had hopefully dashed East from Hollywood, went crestfallen back to the West Coast; Rodzinski had not even had a lookin. Hurriedly NBC augmented its Symphony Orchestra to the extra-large size the performance required. Night after night, nearsighted Maestro Toscanini, who conducts from memory, never from notes, sat up with his nose buried in the score...