Word: antonia
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...Junipero's anniversary, the cause was informally opened with mass celebrated at San Carlos Mission by its present pastor, Father Michael O'Connell. Father Augustine spoke on Fray Junipero's holy life, argued his sanctity. A wreath was laid on his refurbished grave by Excelentisima Maria Antonia Field, descendant of California grandees who was given her title in 1931 by King Alfonso XIII for her work in preserving Spanish California's historical buildings and records. Fray Junipero's cell, restored to look as it did when he prayed, read his missal and scourged himself with...
...Manhattan two years ago Antonia Brico assembled 87 women musicians and conducted them in their first symphony concert (TIME, March 25, 1935). Last week when Miss Brico wound up the third season of the New York Women's Symphony Orchestra, she also had command over four solo singers and a composite chorus of 250. This time there were men in her orchestra, managing some of the unwieldy winds. Though Conductor Brico was in excellent form and the women played better than ever before, the real hero of the evening was Horatio William Parker, a dead and almost forgotten composer...
...Died. Antonia Merce (La Argentina), famed Spanish danseuse; of heart disease; in Bayonne, France...
...down to live in a plain clapboard house in Larchmont, N. Y. For her concert last week she somehow managed to hire 60 expert players from the Philharmonic-Symphony. The men liked her. Her manner was agreeable, her beat graceful and sure. Hrdliczka's concert sounded better than Antonia Brico's which took place four days later. But Antonia Brico had a stiffer undertaking...
Obstacles were many. But Antonia Brico learned determination when she was Wilhelmina Wolthus and washed clothes and scrubbed floors to work her way through the University of California. When she decided to be a conductor she went straight to Karl Muck in Bayreuth, persuaded him to take her for a pupil. When she assembled her woman's orchestra she knew very well that her problem would be to find players for the winds. Finally 25 were recruited, all so earnest that they were oblivious to the fact that women look even funnier than men when blowing...