Word: leginska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...novel named The Haunting. Scene is a village in Cornwall where Gale and his young sailor brother Pascoe quarrel over a hoard of gold hidden in an ancient chest. The beginning is gay with folk tunes. Villagers dance in the market place. Thereafter gloom prevails. Gale, for whom Leginska named her opera, murders his brother, hides the body in a cave near the sea, never succeeds in escaping its ghost...
Although Composer Leginska's music is sometimes turgidly slow, it is on the whole superior to the story she chose and to the Chicago City Opera's blundering production. Well-knit and melodious, the music often gives a real feeling of the sea as it beats against the chalk cliffs of the Cornwall coast. Leginska worked like a fury at rehearsals, got telling results from orchestramen. It was not her fault that the performance began a half hour late, that Morwenna, supposedly a middle-aged character, was mistaken for the youthful heroine or that Baritone John Charles Thomas...