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...White House not long ago Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt received a strange and unfamiliar guest. Her name was Antonia Brico. She had a determined manner and dark blazing eyes. Her purpose was to interest the President's wife in a woman's symphony orchestra. Mrs. Roosevelt was so impressed that last week four Brico concerts were announced, the first to be given in Manhattan...
...Antonia Brico is a conductor who, like helter-skelter Ethel Leginska, affects a jacket which resembles an old-fashioned Prince Albert.* She grew up in Oakland, Calif., studied for five years with Karl Muck in Germany. She has conducted successfully in Berlin, Hamburg, Manhattan. Women proclaim her a genius. Men say that she is an excellent musician who has a clean, sure beat...
...gift of Publisher William Randolph Hearst-in seven years. Snug in overcoats, the audience found the renditions of Weber, Rimsky-Korsakov and Wagner workmanlike but uninspired, applauded the occasion rather than the music. For it was a night of records. The conductor was black-haired, bright-eyed Antonia Brico, first woman ever to conduct Berlin's philharmonic orchestra, first woman to conduct San Francisco's symphony orchestra, first California graduate to conduct that organization at Berkeley...