Title
Nikolai Sokoloff
Subject
Sokoloff, Nikolai, 1886-1965
Federal Music Project (U.S.)
New Deal (1933-1939)
Great Depression
Violinists
Conductors (Music)
Symphony orchestras
Musicians
Description
Nikolai Sokoloff conducts the Illinois Symphony Orchestra during a rehearsal. The Russian-American violinist and conductor served as the director of the Federal Music Project from 1935-1938. Sokoloff conducted the San Francisco People's Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra during his career.
On verso: "From the Federal Music Project; Works Progress Administration; 632 North Dearborn Street; Tel. Delaware 1193; For release Saturday, October 9; Dr. Nikolai Sokoloff directs the eighty members of the Illinois Symphony orchestra in their final rehearsal for the orchestra's gala opening concert tomorrow (Sunday, October 10) at the Great Northern Theater. Dr. Sokoloff, who will appear as guest conductor to inaugurate the orchestra's second season, is national director of the federal music project which employs more than four hundred musicians in the Chicago area alone, and is noted as the founder and former conductor of the Cleveland Symphony orchestra; (City Editor has story)."
On verso: "From the Federal Music Project; Works Progress Administration; 632 North Dearborn Street; Tel. Delaware 1193; For release Saturday, October 9; Dr. Nikolai Sokoloff directs the eighty members of the Illinois Symphony orchestra in their final rehearsal for the orchestra's gala opening concert tomorrow (Sunday, October 10) at the Great Northern Theater. Dr. Sokoloff, who will appear as guest conductor to inaugurate the orchestra's second season, is national director of the federal music project which employs more than four hundred musicians in the Chicago area alone, and is noted as the founder and former conductor of the Cleveland Symphony orchestra; (City Editor has story)."
Publisher
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Date
n.d.
Format
jpg
Language
en
Identifier
401317
Federal Music Project
Original Format
commercial print
b&w
1
Physical Dimensions
26 x 21 cm