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...first, Midwestern next, far Western last. Boston, Manhattan and Philadelphia were well embarked on their seasons last week when simultaneously in Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Detroit four batons began cutting the air. Elderly, thickset Frederick Stock held the stick for Chicago, stalwart, British Eugene Goossens for Cincinnati, brisk Nikolai Sokoloff for Cleveland, quiet, slow-moving Ossip Gabrilowitsch for Detroit. The Midwestern conductors chose safe & sane courses last week, free from hazardous, modernistic hurdles...
...were fortunate to be hearing orchestras at all this year, wanted nothing more exciting. For them it was enough to lionize their conductors. Cincinnati praised Goossens for breaking tradition, allowing part of his programs to be broadcast. Detroit's ovation made Gabrilowitsch blush. Cleveland was extra cordial to Sokoloff since this is probably his last season with the orchestra he has conducted since its infancy.* Chicago's welcome to Stock showed clearly that it had not forgotten how near it came to losing its orchestra over a dispute with the Musicians' Union (TIME, March...
Like the late Theodore Thomas of Chicago and the late Leopold Damrosch of New York, Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff has been an orchestra-builder. It was he who, shrewd, tireless and ambitious, founded the Cleveland Orchestra 14 years ago with the help of Adella Prentiss Hughes, and who secured for it last year its fine new home, Severance Hall (TIME, Feb. 16, 1931). Last week Nikolai Sokoloff, summering in Westport, Conn., was looking forward to next winter's 15th orchestra season; but he could not look forward to being Cleveland's maestro after May 31, 1933. The Cleveland Orchestra...
Cleveland gossips dwelt on the unlikely theme that Conductor Sokoloff had been found wanting in social and civic ways. More important and evident, both to Conductor Sokoloff and the symphony's backers, were the facts the orchestra needed money and that more people in Cleveland would pay to see a newsworthy conductor than would pay to hear the best music consistently produced by the same conductor. Audiences have been bigger when guest conductors came to Cleveland, like Sir Hamilton Harty (who will guest conduct during Conductor Sokoloff's customary mid-season absence this year), Enrique Fernandez Arbos...
...Nikolai Sokoloff of the Cleveland Orchestra with whom she worked out scenarios to several symphonic works. They amounted, in essence, to informal ballets in which the dancing was of the free interpretative kind, full of exaggerated, supposedly primitive poses and vigorous prancing. Audiences have received them in a state of self-conscious hush. Irene Lewisohn and her stage versions of music appeared to have found highest recognition when Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge invited her to give the opening program at the Festival of Chamber Music at the Library of Congress in Washington last week. Mrs. Coolidge's Chamber Music...