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...From present indications" continued Miss Leginska, "our next concert should be well attended. For not only have Boston people been particularly appreciative of my work, but judging from the reception of my speeches before various clubs, forums, and fraternities in this section, they are much interested in the art of concert music itself...
...Pierian Sodality Orchestra seems to have the talent necessary to produce a successful concert," declared Miss Ethel Leginska to a CRIMSON representative yesterday. Miss Leginska first won the plaudits of the musical world as an accomplished concert planist, and has since acquired world-wide fame as the first woman to conduct a large concert orchestra. At present she is training the Pierian Orchestra for its Brattle Hall concert on December 17, at which the principal numbers will be "La Deluge", by C. Saint Saers, and Berioz's "Hungarian March...
...Boston, Ethel Leginska, one-time (TiME, May 3) disappearing pianist, led her new orchestra, the Boston Philharmonic, before fastidious New Englanders; received mingled irony and praise. As all admitted, it was the leader's orchestra, directed nerve on nerve to sheer hypnosis. In Liszt's Hungarian Fantasia, the piece de resistance, Miss Leginska played the piano part, leaving the orchestra, as critics commented, with no mother to guide it, in spite of which it revealed euphony, balance, potential flexibility. A tremendous handicap was the acoustics of Mechanic's Hall. Tumultuous applause from the conductor...
...special feature is, however, Miss Leginska herself. Abroad she has made a name for herself as an orchestral leader. In America she has on a number of occasions conducted large metropolitan orchestras. A London paper complimented her conducting with the remark that "she is as ambidextrous as a conductor as she necessarily has to be as a pianist." American orchestra have featured her work as exceptional and unique...
...Miss Leginska has most recently drawn attention to herself by disappointing various managers in respect to particular engagements. But these exploits belie her fame which consists in traditional eminence as a pianist and more recently fame as a conductress. She is an English woman by nationality and studied first at the Hoch Conservatory and later under Teschetsky. She began touring Europe in 1905, although her first appearance in New York did not come until...