Higginson, Henry Lee
Higginson, Henry Lee
Higginson, Henry Lee, American music patron; b. N.Y., Nov. 18, 1834; d. Boston, Nov. 14, 1919. He attended Harvard Univ. (1851) and studied music in Vienna (1856–60). In 1868 he became a partner in his father’s Boston brokerage firm of Lee, Higginson & Co. His great love for music prompted him to found the Boston Sym. Orch. in 1881, which he subsequently nurtured as its munificent patron. In 1885 he founded the Boston Music Hall Promenade Concerts, a summer series of lighter fare which became celebrated as the Boston Pops.
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B. Perry, Life and Letters of H. L. H (Boston, 1921).
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