Word: leginska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Woman's Symphony One hundred assorted women got behind musical instruments in Manhattan last week and let themselves go. In her usual ministerial frock,* Conductor Ethel Leginska stood before them, driving, cajoling, exerting all her high-pitched energy toward making them realize, as she obviously did. that the début of a national Woman's Symphony Orchestra is a highly important occasion...
...public will support it, or if a backer can be found, the Woman's National Symphony Orchestra plans to be a permanent, touring organization. Conductor Leginska will pack up her spare frock-coat then. Violinist Eileen Mayo will abandon the schooner aboard which she lives. Horn-playing Suzanne Howitt will leave the women's club of Teaneck, N. J. Eight other ladies will shoulder their double-basses, pretty Doris Smith her colossal tuba...