Word: nikolais
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...keen judge of character, the late great Nikolai Lenin set the seal of his approval on William Christian Bullitt, now U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, by calling him "a young man of great heart, integrity and courage." With this Lenin kudos behind him, Mr. Bullitt wound up last week a scouting visit to Moscow on which he was received by almost every prominent Soviet leader except Josef Stalin. Other ambassadors and ministers, most of whom are ostracized in Russia as "Capitalist spies," sat in their embassies and legations while Bill Bullitt hobnobbed with: Premier Molotov, dry, dynamic...
Artur Rodzinski. Vladimir Golschmann, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Nikolai Sokoloff, Tullio Serafin. Soloists to come: Rosa Ponselle, Yehudi Menuhin, Efrein Zimbalist, Josef Hofmann, Jose Iturbi, Vladimir Horowitz. Lily Pons, Lucrezia Bori, Lotte Lehmann, Elisabeth Rethberg, Tito Schipa, Richard Bonelli...
...since decided that they had only themselves, their fiddles and horns to help them through Depression, observed that they had given several concerts without much of any notice, that they were as likely to starve as ever, and that what they had better do was beg. So they begged Nikolai Sokoloff to take charge of them. This he was well able to do since he was about to become unemployed as a result of disagreements among the big hackers of the Cleveland Orchestra which he alone had conducted for 15 years...
Summer 1933. The culture resident in Southeastern Connecticut traveled several times by automobile to Nikolai Sokoloff's farm in Weston, Conn., where a hillside was accepted as an amphitheatre and the 90 musicians as an orchestra...
Karl Krueger, late of the Seattle Symphony, and Nikolai Sokoloff (see above) have two qualities in common. They both know how to whip a ragged orchestra into shape, how to gamble on their caché. Conductor Krueger last week conducted the inaugural concert of the Kansas City Philharmonic, a pay-as-it-goes enterprise boosted by the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. Kansas City's last symphonic venture (two concerts by the Kansas City Musicians Association) was sponsored by Conrad Henry Mann shortly before he was indicted under the Federal lottery law. Before that the Chamber's favorite...