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Had a reputation of being a builder of orchestras; i. e., recruiting musicians and molding them into a cohesive ensemble, then passing the baton to someone else.

With the New York Philharmonic playing the music, he conducted the New York premiere of the concert suite from Aaron Copland's ballet, "Appalachian Spring", although he was not the first to record it.

He trained the NBC Symphony Orchestra for conductor Arturo Toscanini.

Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1933 to 1943.

Conducted the New York Philharmonic from 1943 to 1947. He was reputed to be pathologically jealous of Leonard Bernstein's success with that orchestra (Bernstein was assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic then, and had skyrocketed to fame conducting that orchestra at the last minute with no rehearsal, on November 14, 1943). Rodzinski reportedly once actually pulled a gun on Bernstein and waved it in the air.

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