The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-10-06
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA,
PLAYING HERE NOV. 8,
wins PRAISE OF ALL

When music lovers of Richmond
gather in the Coliseum on Nov s to
hear the Cleveland orchestra in SYM
phony concert, they will listen to the
artistry of 90 musicians who last sea-
son in New York City established the
years symphony attendance record IN
that metropolis. Conductor Nikolai
Sokoloff's big organization on a Sun
day night in the vast New York hip
podrome attracted an audience that
completely taxed the seating capacity
of that big auditorium, won great out
bursts of applause and gained the ia
vor of the critics of a city which.
though not Missouri, has opportunity
to hear so many musical treats in a
season that it has to be shown-if
the presentation of music may be re-
ferred to as being something which
may be shown.
The triumphs of Mr.. Sokoloff's or
ganization in its tours in the east and
in Ohio last year have made the de-
mand for its concerts exceed the sup
ply of dates available. although the
Musical Arts Association of Cleveland
which operates the orchestra, has
heightened the approaching season to
50 weeks and the number of concerts
TO 125. Cities across the border in
Ontario. in which the love of big or
chestra movements is SO pronounced,
have asked the management to make
tour in the province.
These tributes TO the orchestra and
the place it has SO speedily won for
itself in the musical armament are,
quite naturally, attributable to the
foresight technique and personality of
Mr. Sokoloff, together with his rare
genius in assembling the orchestra's
personnel and the selection of pro-
grams, the latter item being no mere
routine selection of composition Each
summer the conductor visits Euro
pean countries to secure new addi-
tons to the Cleveland orchestra IL
brary, and then follows a period Of
study of their possibilities and the ar
rangement of the scores for the 80
musicians.
Render American Numbers
These visits to Europe, however, do
not mean that Mr.. Sokoloff fails to
recognize the American composers.
Quite the contrary is true, and some
of the big successes that have come
to the Cleveland orchestra have been
through the rendition of American
compositions. One of the conspicu-
Gus examples of these was Charles
Martin Loeffler's "a Pagan POEM
which, through its unique and artistic
presentation, was one of the season.
triumphs, winning favor everywhere
to an extent that it is again to be fea-
tured this year.
The Cleveland orchestra is one con-
tradiction to the old adage that "a
prophet is not without honor except
in his own land" Back in the Fifth
City. the sale of season tickets for the
orchestra's series of 16 pairs of SYM
phony concerts, on a date five weeks
before the current seasons opening
and before the sale of seats began,
had exceeded the total sale of season
tickets for all of last eason
Organizations such as the Chamber
of Commerce, the Women's City club
and the Cleveland Advertising club
have had Conductor Sokoloff appear
before them to tell them more about
symphony music, while the Cleveland
Community Fund provided money
gifts of $4,000 with which the or
chestra carries music to the people
with community and Pop" concerts
and with children's concerts and mu-
sic memory contests.
Richmond, then, will not only have
the opportunity of hearing a sym.
phony orchestra, the merit of which
has been attested by audiences in cit.
les which it has visited, but one which
in its home city occupies the position
of a civic institution belonging to all
the people.