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Nikolai Sokoloff

vn, 1886-1965 US, Kiev
Musician / Conductor of Classical

Nikolai Grigoryevich Sokoloff (28 May 1886 – 25 September 1965) was a Russian-American conductor and violinist. He was born in Kiev, and studied music at Yale. From 1916 to 1917 he was musical director of the San Francisco People's Philharmonic Orchestra, where he insisted on including women in his orchestra and paying them the same as men. Sokoloff was the founding conductor and music director of the Cleveland Orchestra in 1918 where he remained until 1932. Between 1935 and 1938 he directed the Federal Music Project, a New Deal program that employed musicians to perform and educate the public about music. From 1938 to 1941 he directed the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. When he was a conductor he gave a violin to then nine-year-old violin prodigy Yehudi Menuhin.

     
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Symphony NO. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27: III. Adagio on Pierné, Borodin, Delibes, Sibelius & Rachmaninoff by The Cleveland Orchestra & Nikolai Sokoloff
Sadko: Song of India on Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, Nicolai, Saint-Saëns & Halvorsen by The Cleveland Orchestra & Nikolai Sokoloff
Entry March of the Boyars in B-Flat Major on Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, Nicolai, Saint-Saëns & Halvorsen by The Cleveland Orchestra & Nikolai Sokoloff
Symphony NO. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27: I. Largo - Allegro Moderato on Pierné, Borodin, Delibes, Sibelius & Rachmaninoff by The Cleveland Orchestra & Nikolai Sokoloff
The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66A: V. Waltz on Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, Nicolai, Saint-Saëns & Halvorsen by The Cleveland Orchestra & Nikolai Sokoloff
Danse Macabre, Op. 40 on Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, Nicolai, Saint-Saëns & Halvorsen by The Cleveland Orchestra & Nikolai Sokoloff
Coppelia: entr’acte And Valse on Pierné, Borodin, Delibes, Sibelius & Rachmaninoff by The Cleveland Orchestra & Nikolai Sokoloff
1812 Overture, Op. 49 on Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, Nicolai, Saint-Saëns & Halvorsen by The Cleveland Orchestra & Nikolai Sokoloff
Symphony NO. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27: II. Allegro Molto on Pierné, Borodin, Delibes, Sibelius & Rachmaninoff by The Cleveland Orchestra & Nikolai Sokoloff
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor on Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, Nicolai, Saint-Saëns & Halvorsen by The Cleveland Orchestra & Nikolai Sokoloff

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Discography
Title Artist Year Type
Sinfonietta La Jolla For Orchestra / Les Illuminations For Soprano And String OrchestraBohuslav Martinů, Benjamin Britten, Orchestra Of The Musical Arts Society Of La Jolla Conducted By Nikolai Sokoloff2007Album
The Cleveland Orchestra On RecordThe Cleveland Orchestra Conducted By Nikolai Sokoloff, Artur Rodzinski, Erich Leinsdorf, George Szell1975Compil.
Divertimento For Orchestra, Opus 34 / Serenade For OrchestraNikolai Lopatnikoff / Miklós Rózsa - La Jolla Musical Arts Festival Orchestra, Nikolai Sokoloff1953Album
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