Music: Dead End Kids' New Boss

  • Share
  • Read Later

(2 of 2)

Jittery and energetic, Rodzinski is one of the few maestros who literally tear their hair at rehearsals. He has an enormous vocabulary of Polish profanity which he spreads over his musicians. A night owl, he always arrives at rehearsals at the last minute after a hastily gulped breakfast. Three years ago, to cure his chronic nervous indigestion, he took up goat's milk. Finding it hard to get, he started a 277-acre goat farm near Stockbridge, Mass. "We've never had any trouble since," gushes his copper-haired wife (a grandniece of famed Polish Violinist Henri Wieniawski). "We can eat anything: pickles, cucumbers, herring. He also drinks a lot of alcohol." But in Cleveland last week Artur Rodzinski was so excited by the news of his new job that he postponed his dinner for three hours while he calmed himself.

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. Next Page