Nikolai Sokoloff

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This article is about the Russian violinist and conductor. For the Russian composer, see Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov.

Nikolai Sokoloff (28 May 1886 – 25 September 1965), was a Russia-American conductor and violinist. He was born in Kiev and studied at Yale. He started his career as a violinist. 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 1940 he directed the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.

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Cleveland Orchestra Music Directors

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Harry West (1903) · Michael Kegrize (1907) · Henry Hadley (1909) · John Spargur (1911) · Mary Davenport-Engberg (1921) · Karl Krueger (1926) · Basil Cameron (1932) · Nikolai Sokoloff (1938) · Thomas Beecham (1941) · Carl Bricken (1944) · Eugene Linden (1948) · Manuel Rosenthal (1950) · Milton Katims (1954) · Rainer Miedél (1976) · Gerard Schwarz (1983)
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