Arri Bachrach wrote: >I remember as a very young kid seeing the NY Phil being conducted by R. He >was considered a rather eccentric individual and among the stories I heard >years later was that he carried a gun!!!!! As Mae West said in one of her movies after a heavy clinch with a suitor: "Are you feelin' a little nervous or are you packin' a rod?" Rodzinski had a reputation, in America at least, for being disputatious, but doesn't this story about him go back to his days in Poland right after WW I? John Dalmas [log in to unmask]