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Carl Laemmle, Samuel L ("Roxy") Rothafel, Harry M. Warner, Adolph Zukor; Musicians Ernest Bloch, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Mischa Levitski, Nikolai Sokoloff; National Benefactors Julius Rosenwald, Aaron Sapiro...
Cleveland spends high praise on its ten-year-old orchestra, on Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff who has been with the orchestra since its birth. Con- ductor Sokoloff evidently does not hold the Cleveland musical public in the same high regard. Often he is vexed by it-for coming late, for coughing, for leaving early. Last week he rebuked it publicly for general lack of interest. A chorus of 30 Glenville High School girls had assisted in a concert, just finished Debussy's Blessed Damosel and taken their applause when Conductor Sokoloff stepped up. Said he: "If this were a baseball...
...next era in his life was spent as an exiled revolutionary. In 1908 he had met Trotsky in Vienna and together they founded the Pravda, now flourishing in Moscow under the editorship of Nikolai Bukharin. On one of his many trips to Russia under a pseudonym he was taken prisoner and exiled for life to Siberia. The 1917 revolution freed him. Returning to Petrograd, he became a member of the municipal council under the Kerensky regime, and a few months later became one of the leading Bolshevist victors...
Simultaneous with the announcement last night of the program of the concert of the Glee Club at Milton next Friday, it was learned that Nikolai Orloff, the planist who had been chosen as assisting artist at the first Symphony Hall concert of the Glee Club on December 8, has become ill in Europe, and would be unable to fulfill his engagement with the Glee Club...
...Cleveland, the Orchestra began its tenth season under Nikolai Sokolov, its first and only conductor, under Adella Prentiss Hughes, its first and only manager. Twenty pairs of concerts were announced with such famed soloists as Josef Hofmann, Harold Samuel, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Paul Kochanski, Albert Spalding. Maurice Ravel will be guest conductor...