Word: leginska
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this, by some consciously & by others unconsciously, was taken into consideration last week when Conductor Ethel Leginska put the Boston Women's Symphony Orchestra through the paces of its first concert. She played Weber's Oberon overture, Frederick Delius's C Minor Concerto, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Tschaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. The overture and the Tschaikovsky fragments were best: the concerto with Pianist Reginald Boardman for soloist was soso; but the splendor of the Beethoven was lost. It had slipped away between individual passages and spread into nothingness. The audience, however, was kind. Loudly...
Pianist Ethel Leginska has often disappointed her audiences by failure to appear. Ethel Leginska, as conductor, has always been at the appointed dais at the appointed time. Last week Conductor Leginska broke her record, failed her public. The San Carlo Grand Opera Company had announced that she would conduct the last Saturday matinee of its Manhattan engagement. But soon they bickered. Conductor Leginska wished to lead not one but four performances. The San Carlo rebelled-and at the scheduled Butterfly the audience watched the serviceable back of Carlo Peroni instead of the svelt velvet jacket and flyaway head of Leginska...
...better showing was made earlier in the week by Emerson Whithorne, onetime (1907-09) husband of Conductor Leginska, whose New York Days and Nights had its first orchestral performance at the hands of the new Beethoven Symphony Orchestra. Critics liked his musical descriptions of a murky autumn morning on a ferry; of the chimes of St. Patrick blended with a Gregorian Chant; of Pell Street, Manhattan's Chinatown, and an old Chinaman playing on his single-stringed fiddle; of Greenwich Village and its weighty dramas made of little lives; of Times Square, its crowds, its glitter, its noise...
...concerts to begin Nov. 4; 16 pairs of popular Sunday concerts; 10 young people's concerts; 5 in the public schools. Conductors, for the regular series, all guests, will be Emil Oberhoffer (Minneapolis), Willem Van Hoogstraten (Portland, Ore.), Eugene Goossens (Rochester), Bernardino Molinari (Rome), Karl Schuricht (Weisbaden). Ethel Leginska and Frederick Fischer, associate conductor, will lead some of the popular concerts...
...Society. The Concord program was as follows: 1. Our Director Bigelow 2. Dornroeschen Tchaikovsky 3. Prelude to "Le Deluge" String Orchestra P. B. Diederick '28, Violin Soloist Saint Saens 4. Hungerian March (Rakoczy) Berloiz Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Grieg Arthur A. Landers, '28, Pianist Conducted by Miss Leginska 5. Xylophone Solo Poet and Peasant Suppe Caprice Huerter S. W. Burbank '29 6. March "Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa 7. Selections from "Student Prince" Romberg 8. Fair Harvard