Article May 20, 1944 Issue

Signs of the Times

Love

with contributions from Artur Rodzinski, J. D. McCrae, Bernard Iddings Bell, William E. Gilroy, Clifford L. Near

Dr. Artur Rodzinski, Director of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, in an address sponsored by the United States Rubber Company and given over the Columbia Broadcasting System.

In our orchestra we have many nationalities, creeds, types, and temperaments. We have learned to forget our individual likes and dislikes, and our differences of temperament—for the sake of the music to which we have dedicated our lives.

I often wonder why we could not solve the world's problems on a basis of harmony. Think what a single individual in a symphony orchestra accomplishes by forgetting himself and giving up his individual traits and ambitions in the service of music! Why could not every individual and every nation in the world learn the same secret in the service of world harmony?

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