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...Ethel Leginska...
...Ethel Leginska became the first woman conductor-composer to write an opera and conduct it in a major opera house when her opera "Gale" was presented on November 23, 1935, by the Chicago City Opera Company...
...distributed in Radio City's Studio 8 H for last week's Manhattan broadcast by the NBC Symphony sported the names of four U. S. composers.. To concertgoers the most familiar was that of pasty-faced Emerson Whithorne, onetime music-critic and husband of Pianist Ethel Leginska. Whithorne's new Sierra Morena, premiered by walrus-mustached Pierre Monteux, consisted of Spanish folk-idioms with impressionistic gravy. The -gravy lacked the smoothness of Ravel's, the piquancy of Manuel de Falla's, tasted a little like both...
Women conductors are not a complete novelty to U. S. concertgoers. Fiery, mop-headed Ethel Leginska, conducting symphonies as early as 1926, was soon followed by Chicago's Ebba Sundstrom and Manhattan's Antonia Brico. But few of the big-league U. S. symphony orchestras have ever been led by a woman...
...tribe, brought suit against him for $30,000, claiming that he encouraged her to prepare for leading roles, then refused to let her perform unless she paid him a guarantee of $5,500. Similar rumors kept popping. Critic Glenn Dillard Gunn of the Herald & Examiner openly asserted that Ethel Leginska had paid for the production of her opera, Gale. Soprano Lola Fletcher admitted privately that she had to pay $125 to sing Musetta in La Boheme...