Under Leslie Woodgate , the Choral Society achieved maturity ; .
All accounts of the period agree that the occasions which marked that maturity were the concerts given at the end of the 1930s under the direction of Arturo Toscanini .
Under Leslie Woodgate , the Choral Society achieved maturity ; and all accounts of the period agree that the occasions which marked that maturity were the concerts given at the end of the 1930s under the direction of Arturo Toscanini .