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He was born in Kiev, and studied music at Yale.
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Nikolai Sokolov
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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 mentor 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 1941 he directed the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.
When he was a conductor he gave a violin to then nine-year-old violin prodigy Yehudi Menuhin. Rachmaninoff, Symphony Number.
2, Cleveland Orchestra, 1928.
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