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...phone rang in the Chicago Symphony's office, and a familiar voice spoke all-too-familiar words: "Dr. Rodzinski cannot conduct rehearsal today." Assistant Conductor Tauno Hannikainen was hurriedly called in. He had just 24 hours to rehearse with the soloist (Pianist Myra Hess) and to start learning Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Several hours later, the phone rang again; once again it was Mrs. Rodzinski on the line: "Dr. Rodzinski is better; he will conduct the Shostakovich; Hannikainen can conduct the rest." But the orchestra's trustees had already heard enough. Midway through the concert next...
...backed the Chicago Symphony were good & mad at temperamental Artur Rodzinski; he had become a dissonance that wouldn't resolve. When he quit the New York Philharmonic in a huff last year (TIME, Feb. 17) he had exulted: "Since 21 years, Chicago is my goal." But once he had reached his goal, said the Chicago trustees, he had not only consistently played hooky, but he had caused confusion and expense in rehearsals with last-minute changes of program. The estimated deficit thus...
Mammon v. Music. Rodzinski, who is always surprising people with ecstatic references to his art and to his God (he is an ardent Buchmanite) had bumped head-on into mammon again. In spite of his unpredictable ways, many Chicagoans rushed to his defense last week. Their feeling was that maybe Rodzinski had thrown a little money around, but he had built the orchestra again into a first-rate symphony, using the same old hands (only the piano player and the first horn were new). He had given Chicagoans the finest opera they had heard in years: a concert version...
...Knowing Ears. Raged the Chicago Tribune's fiery Critic Claudia Cassidy, who had plumped hard for hiring Rodzinski: "Chicago's musical future looks bleak indeed when a man like Rodzinski can be arbitrarily fired." Hearst's veteran Chicago Critic Ashton Stevens published a wire he had sent to Rodzinski: "I used to think the Capone mob retarded civilization in Chicago, but tonight I feel that the Orchestra Hall boys [the trustees] have made Al and his gang look like Robin Hood and his merry men. ... So they huddled upstairs and gave you the black sack. . . . God help...
...reporters asked Rodzinski about his plans. Said he: "I have no answer-now. All I know is that I dreamed of making Chicago the musical capital of the world. Later there will be plenty said-but maybe I won't say it. Vox populi, you know." Then flexing his biceps, he cracked: "Maybe I can go into wrestling. But I guess not, I am too old with my ticker...