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Concert Scheduled Today to Benefit Woman Hit by Train

The Really Terrible Orchestra of Westchester is hosting a fundraiser for Maya Leggat. Leggat, a violinist with the orchestra.

Maya Leggat was supposed to be one of the performers today during the Really Terrible Orchestra’s concert at the Yonkers Public Library’s Grinton I. Will branch.

That all changed on Sept. 25 when Howard J. Mickens, 39, pushed the 21-year-old Leggat in front of an oncoming train at the White Plains Metro-North train station.

Mickens is currently custody and faces a charge of second-degree murder. Leggat, a violinist with the Really Terrible Orchestra, is rehabbing from her injuries.

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Now, the orchestra plans to use today's performance as a way to help defray some of Leggat's medical costs.

“She has to learn how to walk again,” said Les Krasnogor, board president of a The Really Terrible Orchestra. “She has screws, pins and casts in both legs. Both of her legs were broken in multiple place, so we’re trying to help her walk again.”

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Krasnogor said a portion of one Leggat’s fingers was also severed, so it’s unknown if she will ever play again.

Today’s concert will take place at 1500 Central Ave. in Yonkers. The orchestra plans to perform selections from Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Franz Schubert, Edvard Grieg and Rodgers and Hammerstein.

There is no entrance fee.

‘We scheduled the concert in advance, before Maya was hurt” Krasnogor said. “If we had it in a private place we could charge, but we can’t do it now. We’re just asking people to give whatever they can.”


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