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...Present were Conductors Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Nikolai Sokoloff, Walter Damrosch, Artur Bodansky, Ernest Schelling, Composers Deems Taylor, George Gershwin, Arthur Shepherd, Aaron Copland, Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza of the Metropolitan Opera, French Ambassador Paul Claudel (librettist of Darius Milhaud's Christopher Columbus...
...desk, because he scorns cheap workmanship and any form of self-exploitation, much of his music is comparatively unknown. Last week in Boston Sergei Koussevitzky conducted his Canticum Fratis Solis in addition to the Pagan Poem. Fortnight ago when the Cleveland Orchestra dedicated its new hall Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff chose Composer Loeffler to write the special Evocation and Composer Loeffler took one of his rare trips out of retirement to attend its performance...
Intellectually the new building is a monument to the efforts and foresight of two people: to Russian Nikolai Sokoloff, only conductor the Orchestra has had, who at last week's dignified housewarming gave a particularly eloquent reading of Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler's Evocation, composed specially for the occasion; and to Adella Prentiss Hughes, the Orchestra's enterprising manager, out of respect for whom John Davison Rockefeller Jr., a one-time Clevelander, gave $250,000. Financially the rest of the credit goes to Dudley Stuart Blossom, tireless campaigner who with his wife gave some...
...Nikolai Sokoloff, conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, whom Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday called "a dirty foreigner," because of his promise to give $100 to the anti-Prohibition work of the Crusaders (TIME, Oct. 27), doubled his subscription, fired back at Sunday before a Crusader luncheon at Cleveland: "I have lived here 30 years as a citizen of the United States. . . . Whatever career I have had has been here. ... I have yet to see the inside of a jail. Yet this gentleman [Evangelist Sunday] says that ... all of foreign blood are 'foreigners and dirty crooks'. ... I am disgusted...
Cleveland will begin, its 13th season Oct. 16 under Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff. In January it is anticipated that the Orchestra will move into its own hall, given by John L. and the late Mrs. Severance...