Music: Discord in Chicago

Artur Rodzinski had been fired, but he was still on the job. (He will leave April 30.) He took the Chicago Symphony on a tour from Iowa to Texas last week, and everywhere they went, he and the orchestra got rave reviews. Back in Chicago, critics and public were singing an angry chorus against the Symphony Board for dismissing Rodzinski.

The name most frequently mentioned in the chorus was Board President Edward Ryerson's; he had found Rodzinski harder to handle than his own Inland Steel Co. employees. He had made the mistake of saying that the firing of Rodzinski "was motivated purely...

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