Word: brico
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...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...