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...name meant little to the neighbors. It meant much to musicians. They knew that Mrs. Roy Emerson Whittern is also Ethel Leginska,* famed more for her disappearances than for her appearances. They were interested to hear that Leginska says she has definitely retired from the concert stage: "The public will soon forget me as a pianist and I shall be glad. No one knows how I have suffered for the past 17 years every time I have been obliged to face an audience. Concert playing may be spectacular, but the great art is in composing and conducting. I am never...
Eccentric Ethel Leginska made one of her famed disappearances last week in Evansville, Ind. She was scheduled to play at the Coliseum there before an audience of some 3,000. The evening of the concert came, almost the hour-no Leginska. It was recollected that when she left the train she had said: "I don't want to ride in your old yellow cabs. I can't play the piano tonight. I want my symphony orchestra." When she went to the hall to practice: "I don't like this old barn. I won't play...
Friends spoke sorrowingly of her "nervous condition. . . . ' Less charitable observers noted that never, when slated to lead an orchestra, has Conductor Leginska been missing from her dais...
...Ethel Leginska, in a velveteen dress, with a puff of wiry hair spreading a determined aureole around her pale face, appeared, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra as pianist, conductor, composer. Critics agreed that her suite, "Six Nursery Rhymes for Soprano and Small Orchestra," was amusing and adept; that the 85 gentlemen of the orchestra conducted her, rather than she them; that she is a brilliant pianist...
...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...