Word: leginska
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Women's String Quartet was acclaimed, in Manhattan, in 1897. There have been innumerable famed women composers, instrumental virtuosos, of every nationality-Clara Schumann, wife of the great German composer, Robert Schumann; Mrs. Chazal, English composer, pianist; Carlotta Ferrari, foremost woman composer of Italy; Teresa Carreiia, Venezuela. Ethel Leginska has frequently been given public attention when she conducted orchestras (TIME, Jan. 19). A woman, Saint Cecelia, is the patron saint of Music. At all these notable women, male musicians have sniffed now and again. Other women, or sympathetic males, resenting the sniffs, have taken up arms, started anew...
...Theodore Leschetizky, four times married, died in 1915. Among his one-time pupils are Paderewski, Hambourg, Gabrilowitsch, Moiseiwitch, Brailowsky, Essipov, Friedman, Leginska...
...symphony orchestra. In the course of history, women have entertained and indeed achieved desires very similar. They have commanded knights and serfs, taken walled towns and sat throned among their armies. Yet, few women have ever risen to lead orchestras. Last week, in Manhattan, one did. Miss Ethel Leginska, famed pianist, composer, conducted the New York Symphony in Carnegie Hall...
...evening a huge wreath, surmounted by the British and American flags, was placed on the stage. Her admirers came to praise. Repeatedly she tried to make the orchestra rise and bow with her, but that organization of astute and courteous musicians remained obstinately seated. They knew that Miss Leginska believed herself to be experiencing the only sensible gratification which the world affords to the thoughtful. They did not want anyone to think that, had Miss Leginska merely said to them: "Gentlemen, I wish you would play the Oberon overture, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and the Meistersinger overture," the performance...
Eyeing the hand of Conductor Damrosch, the entire congress began to play, with sonorous tutti, Saint-Saens' Variations on a Theme by Beethoven. Then Mines. Hess, Leginska and Mérë sat jowl to jowl at one piano, played Boieldieu's overture to La Dame Blanche. Laughter and applause. Mr. Brailowsky opened the preamble of Schummann's Carnaval, passed it on to Mr. Gabrilowitch, and so the music leaped from instrument to instrument "till all marched against the Philistines...