Editing New York Philharmonic (section)

===The War years, 1940===
After an unsuccessful attempt to hire the German conductor [[Wilhelm Furtwängler]], the English conductor [[John Barbirolli]] and the Polish conductor [[Artur Rodziński]] jointly replaced Toscanini in 1936. The next year, Barbirolli was given the full conductorship, a post he held until 1941. In December 1942, [[Bruno Walter]] was offered the music directorship, but declined, citing his age (he was 67).<ref>Erik Ryding and Rebecca Pechefsky, ''Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere'', Yale University Press, 2001, p. 283</ref> In 1943, Rodziński, who had conducted the orchestra's centennial concert at Carnegie Hall the previous year, was appointed music director. He had also conducted the Sunday afternoon radio broadcast when [[CBS]] listeners around the country heard the announcer break in on [[Arthur Rubinstein]]'s performance of [[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]]'s [[Piano Concerto No. 2 (Brahms)|Second Piano Concerto]] to inform them of the attack on [[Pearl Harbor]]. (Initial word of the attack was forwarded by CBS News correspondent [[John Charles Daly]] on his own show before the Philharmonic broadcast.) Soon after the U.S. entered World War II, [[Aaron Copland]] wrote ''[[A Lincoln Portrait]]'' for the Philharmonic at the request of conductor [[Andre Kostelanetz]] as a tribute to and expression of the "magnificent spirit of our country."

Rodziński, Walter, and Sir [[Thomas Beecham]] made a series of recordings with the Philharmonic for [[Columbia Records]] during the 1940s. Many of the sessions were held in [[Liederkranz Hall]], on East 58th Street, a building formerly belonging to a German cultural and musical society, and used as a recording studio by [[Columbia Records]].<ref name="SIMONS">{{cite book|last=Simons|first=David|title=Studio Stories – How the Great New York Records Were Made | location = San Francisco | publisher = Backbeat Books | year = 2004 | url = https://archive.org/details/studiostorieshow00simo|url-access=registration|isbn=978-0-87930-817-9}} Cf. p.24</ref><ref>North, James H., [https://books.google.com/books?id=BN6ZNNS3u8cC ''New York Philharmonic: the authorized recordings, 1917–2005 : a discography''], Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. Cf. especially [https://books.google.com/books?id=BN6ZNNS3u8cC&dq=111+e+58th+st+new+york+city+liederkranz+hall&pg=PR20 p.xx]</ref> [[Sony Records]] later digitally remastered the Beecham recordings for reissue on CD.