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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...
Sibelius' First Symphony by Conductor Robert Kajanus and Symphony Orchestra (Columbia, $7.50)-Great, gaunt music played by the fellow Finn who is Sibelius' chosen interpreter. The Finnish Government is proudly helping to finance the recording of the seven Sibelius symphonies...
Beethoven's First Symphony by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under Willem Mengelberg (Victor, $8)-A capable performance by the Dutchman who last year left the U. S. because he could not play a capable second fiddle to Conductor Arturo Toscanini. The recording is excellent...
Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet by Conductor Willem Mengelberg and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra (Columbia, $4)-Toscanini would scorn playing this popular love music inspired by Tchaikovsky's unrequited passion for a French singing actress. Mengelberg and his home orchestra give it a glowing performance...
...Lucie Oelrichs Jay, 75, Manhattan socialite, relict of the late Col. William Jay (Civil War veteran, lawyer), daughter of the late Henry Oelrichs, general director of North German Lloyd Steamship Co. in the U. S.; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. Famed for her Wartime anti-German activities, she campaigned against Conductor Karl Muck, founded the New York City Anti-German Music League and Mrs. William Jay's Committee for the Severance of All Social & Professional Relations With Enemy Sympathizers...