Word: hogg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...determined ladies who establish "symphony work" as a prime social criterion, whose tea parties, meetings and fund campaigns often mean the difference between life and death for an orchestra. One of the grandest of all musical, grandes dames in the U.S. is Houston's Miss Ima Hogg,† seventyish daughter of Texas' wealthy Governor (1890-95) Jim Hogg. She reigns as an absolute empress, and Houston Junior Leaguers have learned that the only sure way to her is through the symphony. When "Miss Ima" starts her annual fund drive at her mansion on Lazy Lane, the Houston girls...
December Huff. Ima Hogg is one of the orchestra's founders (1913) and president of the board. Her rule has been benevolent. Says she: "I've dreamed of enriching the lives of everybody through music." When she became president in 1946, the orchestra's budget was $300,000. She imported Conductor Efrem Kurtz (at about $30,000 a year), added $100,000 to the budget and expanded performances. By last spring, the orchestra ranked among the first dozen...
...notice. Guest conductors came for frank appraisal, and went, until Hungary's Ferenc Fricsay (pronounced free-cheye) appeared and led a stormy performance of Bartok that had the audience stamping approval. He won the contract hands down, but now he in turn is in trouble with President Hogg. Fricsay, who since 1948 had built Berlin's RIAS Orchestra into a first-rate ensemble, talked of grandiose plans for the future of the Houston Symphony, e.g., to up the budget to $700,000 in five years and tour Europe and the U.S. These ideas sounded too ambitious even...
...Named after the heroine of a Civil War poem (The Fate of Marvin) written by her uncle, Thomas E. Hogg...
...Daughter of Texas Governor James Stephen Hogg (1851-1906), named for the heroine of a poem (The Fate of Marvin) written by her uncle, Thomas E. Hogg...