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Music Abroad UNITED STATES
The Cleveland Symphony Orchestra's winter season will feature 18 concerts. Mr. Nikolai Sokoloff, its director, announces that each of the 18 programs will include a work that has never been performed in Cleveland. Among the works to be performed are Sibelius' Finlandia; Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; Strauss's Til Eulenspiegel; and Loeffler's Pagan Poem. The symphonies to be performed for the first time in Cleveland include: Rimsky-Korsakow's Symphony in E-flat; Vincent d'Indy's Summer Day in the Mountains; and Borodin's Symphony No. 2. Among the orchestral pieces: Loeffler's Poem; Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé; Rimsky-Korsakow's The Czar's Bride; Serenade and Dance, by Debussy, etc. As every year, one of the concerts will be exclusively devoted to Wagner and another to Tchaikovsky. The soloists will be as before Elsa Alsen and Clarence Whitehill. The famous harpsichordist and pianist Wanda Landowska inaugurated her second American tour on November 6 in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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