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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...
Chicago, Cincinnati and Minneapolis will hear their first programs on Oct. 17. Under Conductor Frederick Stock the Chicago Symphony will give its usual series in Orchestra Hall, additional concerts in Milwaukee and at the Uni-versity of Chicago. The Cincinnati Symphony points with pride to its thriving under the sponsorship of the Institute of Fine Arts (endowment scheme begun three years ago by Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft and her late husband). Minneapolis concerts under Belgian Henri Verbrugghen are to be broadcast over a nationwide hookup. Mrs. Carlyle Scott is this Orchestra's new manager...
California concerts are also scheduled to begin in October. Los Angeles will have its second season under Conductor Artur Rodzinski (formerly Philadelphia Orchestra assistant), its eleventh with William Andrews Clark Jr. as sole supporter. San Francisco will have two new conductors to succeed Alfred Hertz: for the first three months, British Basil Cameron; then Russian Issai Dobrowen (recent conductor in Norway...
Omaha will have Joseph Littau, conductor at Roxy's cinemansion in Manhattan, to succeed Sandor Harmati...
Thanks to a printer, a carpetmaker, a banker and a conductor, Worcester, Mass, (famed for machinery, wire and textile manufacturies) was treated last week to its 71st festival of music. Six years ago New England's oldest festival threatened to snuff out for lack of financial support. President Hamilton B. Wood of Commonwealth Press, a dabbler in musical composition, became indignant at the prospect. He won the support of keen Carpetmaker Matthew P. Whittall and Treasurer Harrison G. Taylor of the local Five Cents Savings Bank. Together these three canvassed the city for subscriptions, engaged Conductor Albert Stoessel...