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...understand performers who make fun of serious music, burlesquing well-known classics, but how performers can, without irreverence, have fun with music these complainers cannot see. Few such gentry were in the Cleveland audience which last week heard a drunken Russian cab driver conduct the Volga boat-song. Nicolai Sokolov, Cleveland Orchestra conductor, famed interpreter of the Russians, had just directed his orchestra through an all-Tchaikovsky program that ranged from a tuneful bonbon for fatigued capitalists (the Sleeping Beauty Waltz) to the rounded maturity of the Fourth Symphony-all played magnificently. When the concert was over, 100 guests remained...
...Cleveland Orchestra, Nikolai Sokolov, conductor, will give 65 concerts beginning Oct. 21. Among the soloists will be Elsa Alsen, Alfred Cortot, Lucrezia Bori, Ruth Breton, John Charles Thomas, Respighi, Josef Szigeti, Dusolina Giannini, Efrem Zimbalist, Harold Bauer...
Left to themselves in comparative peace, by the Vienna rabble, the 14th Zionist Congressmen (TIME, Aug. 24th, 31) last week made war with one another. The Congress had practically decided to elect Nahum Sokolov, executive committee head, President of the World Zionists. The outgoing President, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, was apparently willing to take a vacation...
...Nahum Sokolov been a man of greater soul-breadth, he might have restored peace and been elected President. For he is a most distinguished man in whom his race takes pride. Born in Wishograd, Russian Poland, he was an intellectual prodigy at ten. He has been a journalistic prodigy ever since, is the most prolific Jewish writer of this generation. Histories, primers, geographies, magazine articles-there is nothing he has not written. But he was not the man to quench the fire in Jabotinsky's eyes. He was not the man to wean from Weizmann the financial support...
...Nahum Sokolov, member of the Executive Committee, was chosen to succeed Dr. Weizmann as President...