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...piano. But if one waits long enough, the worm will sometimes turn. Twenty-odd years ago, one Judy Collins, age 10, landed in Brico's lap for piano lessons. Today, Collins is in a position to return part of the gift of this most gifted woman. She and Jill Godmilow have produced a documentary on Brico's life and work, entitled Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman: The film has just begun an indefinite run at the Orson Welles. It is a remarkable portrait of an equally remarkable woman...
...Collins, Godmilow and a technical crew spent several days filming Brico in her Denver home. The rest of the footage shows Brico's Denver Symphony in rehearsal and 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...
...subject. Brico is only one in a generation of women who have paid with their lives for a key their daughters may yet live to use. Since most of us lack the means to repay that generational debt, films like Antonia must do it for us. But Collins and Godmilow avoid the temptation to use the film as a political vehicle. It is, from beginning to end, a study of the life and work of one woman, on whom the eye is trained unfailingly. That is the most fitting tribute they can pay to someone who, in 60 years...
COLLINS AND GODMILOW were both present at the opening night screening of Antonia at the Boston Center for the Arts, and spoke more on this point. They said that while they were filming, they tried to lead Brico to say that yes, she was gratified to have pioneered a trail for other women to follow. Brico's answer came back crystal clear--"I would have given up that odious distinction to have conducted more." That is perhaps a hard thing for us to hear. We would rather think our martyrs find a comfort in their roles. But Brico is first...