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...intensely with Albert Schweitzer, her spiritual mentor, in Africa during the 1950s; of Artur Rubinstein and Bruno Walter, who were patrons when she was searching for an orchestra to lead; of a fight with Tenor John Charles Thomas, who refused to perform in concert with a woman as a conductor. In the 1930s Antonia organized an all-woman orchestra in New York. Later she brought men into it, because, as she says quite reasonably, "women and men are together in life." Along with her various orchestras, sheponducted a running feud with Pianist Jose Iturbi, who allowed lhat he thought...
...performance, as well as her 1930 Berlin debut. Brico is on-camera almost the entire time; in response to Collins's questions, she talks with direct simplicity about her music, her friendship with Albert Schweitzer, her colleagues, and (one senses for the first time) the heartbreak that is a conductor's lot when deprived of an orchestra...
Rumor has it and common sense would tend to confirm that the new Bach Society will be better than the last. The talented new conductor, Hugh Wolff, promises a real symphonic sound in concerts spanning the spectrum of music history. This Saturday the Bach Society presents Harvard's first orchestral concert, featuring Richard Kogan, winner of last year's HRO concerto competition, in Beethoven's 4th. Concert-goers, take heed of this auspicious occasion. Karen Hsiao...
...Bach Society Orchestra, Hugh Wolff, Conductor, plays Debussy: L'apres-midi D'un Faune; Mozart: "Paris" Symphony, K. 297; and Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4, in G, Richard Kogan, Piano. Tickets: $1.00 at Holyoke Center and the Door. Saturday...
Good use of the new Boesendorfer piano this weekend. We have a chance to hear Hugh Wolff, pianist, composer, and new conductor of the Bach Society, play Schumann and Brahms on Saturday. The following evening, Lydia Artymiw will perform in an interesting program consiting of popular Romantic composers...