Word: brico
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Antonia Brico--female orchestra conductor, Dunster...
...ANTONIA BRICO, 73, explains, "I felt I'd never forgive myself if I didn't try." Forty years ago, Brico seemed to be on the brink of a brilliant career. In 1930 she became the first woman to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic. Albert Schweitzer taught...
...Thomas balked at being led by a woman. Opportunities to play her instrument, the orchestra, were rare. Settling in Denver, she conducted a group of semi-professionals and gave piano lessons. Last year Antonia, a film about her made by a former piano pupil-Folk Singer Judy Collins-started Brico on a second career. At 72, she was suddenly in demand. Last summer she conducted at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, and is now booked through 1976. Her ambition: to conduct Wagner...
...attention by anyone else. When she asked Michael Loo to be her concertmaster, a service he has performed for past Gilbert and Sullivan shows, he replied, "What happened? Did no one else want to be conductor?" but comments like his have been rare. Krag is not an Antonia Brico, either in her ambitions or disappointments. Talent and effort have paid off in her case and she is able to do with her music what she wants--enjoy it and the opportunity it affords to "work with a group of people toward a common goal...
ANTONIA: A PORTRAIT OF THE WOMAN. A loving record of the life of Antonia Brico, a symphony conductor scarred but not humbled by the problem of being a woman and an artist in America. This beautifully fashioned documentary by Jill Godmilow and Judy Collins never bows to rhetoric or pity...