by Stravinsky's Persephone, Orpheus and The Rite of Spring, Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos, Stanislaw Moniuszko's The Haunted Manor, Richard Strauss's The Knight of the Rose, Bela Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle, Luigi Dallapiccoli's Il prigionero and Luigi Nono's Il mantello rosso. In 1965-68, Wodiczko was again conductor at the Reykjavik Philharmonic and in 1968 took the position of conductor of the Polish Radio Great Symphony Orchestra - WOSPR [later NOSPR]. 1972-death A professor at the National Higher Music School in Warsaw in 1972-8, he was appointed director and artistic manager of the Teatr Wielki in Lodz in August 1977 and was the artistic manager, though not the director any more, from April to June 1979. In the last years of his life, when he seldom stood at the conductor's podium, he made the Helsinki recording of Claude Debussy's Iberia and of Karol Szymanowski's Harnasie (with the Polish Radio Great Symphony Orchestra). Wodiczko received the Order of the Falcon from the President of Iceland in 1968 and the award of the Polish Composers' Association in 1975. Personal life He was the father of the Polish-American artist Krzysztof Wodiczko. Footnotes References Bohdan Wodiczko at culture.pl External links Polish conductors (music) Male conductors (music) Chopin University of Music alumni Polish people of Czech descent Musicians from Warsaw 1911 births 1985 deaths 20th-century conductors (music) 20th-century male musicians