 Complete the following phrase:  After encouragement from Cleveland Orchestra founder Adella Prentiss Hughes and music director Nikolai Sokoloff, plans for Severance Hall began to emerge based on a plot of land offered by Western Reserve University now Case Western Reserve University at a leasing cost of 1.00 per year and potential funds contributed by the general public and local philanthropists. During a gala concert celebrating the Orchestras tenth-anniversary, Dudley Blossom, an early benefactor, announced that John L. Severance, president of the Musical Arts Association, and his wife, Elisabeth, had pledged 1 million to the construction of a new hall. In support of an associated fundraising campaign, Blossom and his wife donated 750,000 the following day. Though Elisabeth Severance died in 1929, John Severance was determined to see the project through to its completion and intended for the concert hall to serve as a de facto memorial to his late wife. Despite a 