ABSTRACT
Back from Europe, Sessions lived during the 1924–1925 school year at 1464 Lee Road. During this year Bloch and the Cleveland Institute would sever their connection. The CIM had begun a string orchestra conducted by Bloch. Barbara Sessions played violin in this orchestra of about 40 students and faculty. Violinist Albert Spalding, visiting a rehearsal in November, complimented them: “Never have I seen such beautiful bowing by so large a body of strings.” 1 A second visitor later that month would also prove important in Sessions’s future: Cesar Saerchinger, a friend of Bloch’s, was a guest lecturer.
