Artur Rodzinski was one of the most brilliant conductors in an era which
had most of the "greats".  In spite of mis-information in the New York
Times when Maazel was appointed Musical Director last year and the claim
was made that this was the first time anyone had held, at one time or
another, that position with two of the top "Five", Maazel's second top five
job being his prior years in Cleveland.  Mr. Rodzinski held not only held
that title with the New York Philharmonic but as well the same position
with the orchestras of Chicago and Cleveland with detours in Los Angles,
Philadelphia (as Stokowski's Assistant) and training the newly formed NBC
Symphony for Toscanini.  Not bad!!  Much of his work was available on the
Dante label (pirated from the original Columbia's), no longer with us, as
well some of the vanity press releases by Cleveland, Chicago, etc, also
feature his work.  Perhaps the best "Scotch" Symphony ever recorded was
his with Chicago, available on their first mega release of performances by
their various musical directors.  The Rodzinski recordings stand the test
of time amazingly well and show that there was much life in the Cleveland
Orchestra before the Szell era.

"Our Two Lives" written by his widow, Halina Rodzinski, and published by
Scribners in 1976 gives a certain look, one sided though it is, at their
life.  Lots of good pictures!

Peter Schenkman, Toronto, Canada