Rodzinski

[ ruh-jin-skee ]

noun

1. Ar·tur [ahr, -t, oo, r], 1894–1958, U.S. orchestra conductor.

Example Sentences

“There is a German verb, musizieren, which means to make music,” Thomson wrote in a review of one of Walter’s Philharmonic concerts in 1941, suggesting that the word applied more to him than to those, like Artur Rodzinski and Dimitri Mitropoulos, who had also conducted that orchestra.

From New York Times

The through-line of dance continued into the night’s closer, Strauss’s “Der Rosenkavalier” suite, which has just as much to do with Artur Rodzinski, who arranged it from sections of Strauss’s 1911 opera and conducted its first performance in 1944.

From Washington Post

Rafael Kubelik’s spell as music director of the Chicago Symphony lasted just three fraught seasons after he arrived in 1950 to replace Artur Rodzinski; Kubelik was swiftly doomed by the barrage of negativity aimed at him by the Chicago Tribune critic Claudia Cassidy.

From New York Times

And the decades since have not been kind to Rodzinski, leaving him remembered, if at all, for embodying “all that a real maestro was supposed to be,” a critic once wrote: “preening, arbitrary, dictatorial, unpredictable, driven by ambition.”

From New York Times

He may have been “no poet of the baton,” as the critic Virgil Thomson put it in October 1943, when Rodzinski became music director of the New York Philharmonic.

From New York Times