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Antonia Brico (26 June 1902 3 August 1989), conductor and pianist, was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Brico emigrated to California with her foster parents in 1908.
In July 1938 Brico was the first woman to conduct the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, and in 1939 conducted the Federal Orchestra in concerts at the New York World's Fair.
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 Ladyslipper Online Catalog & Resource Guide of Music by Women - Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman
A film biography of Dr. Antonia Brico - a conductor, a teacher, a pioneer in the concert halls of the world - this fascinating blend of music, politics, romance and memories is the story of history's first woman symphony conductor, powerful, humorous, inspiring and thoroughly unrepentant.
ANTONIA is much the best example so far of a new feminist consciousness in movies, a statement that is clear and direct, fiercely calm and moving.
ANTONIA, a superb documentary about conductor Antonia Brico, details the achievement and the struggles that began for a child who was first taught piano because she bit her nails - and continue for the 73 year old who now conducts a community orchestra in Denver...
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 Brico, Antonia
Born on June 26, 1902, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Antonia Brico came to the United States with her parents in 1908 and settled in California.
In July 1938 at Lewisohn Stadium she was the first woman to conduct the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, and in 1939 she conducted the Federal Orchestra in concerts at the New York World's Fair.
In 1974 a documentary film about her life entitled "Antonia: A Portrait of a Woman," made by Jill Godmilow and folksinger Judy Collins, who was a former student of hers, was widely seen and led to invitations to conduct at Lincoln Center, New York, at Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.
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 Denver - News - THE BRICO REQUIEM - westword.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Pianist Magdalena Boratgis, Brico's assistant with the symphony for ten years and a frequent traveling companion, says that people stayed with Brico not only for the music but for the intangibles--her vibrancy, her sense of adventure, her unexpected bursts of generosity.
Brico had been greatly distressed when Judy Collins broke from her in the 1950s to pursue a career in folk music.
Antonia was nominated for an Academy Award and catapulted Brico to a level of celebrity she'd never known before.
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Brico, ANTONIA is a stunningly original film about a true original.
However, it was inevitable that Brico should suffer the fate of all discoverers; i.e., obscurity in later life.
The quite listenable music that she wrings from this motley collection of amateurs is testimony to the fact that Brico was the Real Deal, and deserved much more than ending up as a footnote in Gender Feminism Studies.
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 Denver - News - THE BRICO REQUIEM - westword.com
Antonia said the biggest crime in playing Bach was to play it so fast you couldn't hear the notes.
For years Brico took the train twice a month to southeastern Colorado, where she gave piano lessons to the children of wheat farmers and was treated like royalty.
Brico was a "horrid prima donna," Blomster notes, who drove many fine musicians away from her.
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 Antonia
Antonia is the feminine of Antonius, the Latin form of an Ancient Greek name, Anthony.
It belonged to two daughters of Mark Antony (Antonia the Elder and Antonia the Younger) and the mother of Claudius I. Because of St. Anthony (or Antonius), feminine forms of his name could be found from time to time in the Middle Ages in Europe, but the name was not all that common.
Antonia was made common in the United States by the great influx of German and Scandinavian immigrants s in the mid-19th century as well as by the Spanish-speaking settler of the Southwest.
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 The Movie Marketing Blog Shop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The younger generation is represented by Thomas Schippers, and also by Antonia Brico, one of the first female conductors to make an international reputation for herself.
Szell, Walter, and Antonia Brico all conducted then and all fled the Nazis to come to America.
Brico was subsequently forgotten until one of her piano students in Denver, who happened to be Judy Collins, brought her to notice with a documentary film.
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 GreenCine | product main - Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman (1974)
Singer/songwriter Judy Collins and filmmaker Jill Godmilow were the creative forces behind Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman.
Her uplifting story is enhanced tenfold by precious backstage footage of Brico in action.
Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman was well distributed on the college campus circuit, then became a staple of arts-oriented cable TV services.
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- A film biography of Dr. Antonia Brico - a conductor, a teacher, a pioneer in the concert halls of the world - this fascinating blend of music, politics, romance and memories is the story of history's first woman symphony conductor, powerful, humorous, inspiring and thoroughly unrepentant.
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In 1933 conducted unemployed New York and Westchester musicians at the Metropolitan Opera House as a fundraiser and famed singer John Charles Thomas refused to appear on the program because her fame would have upstaged him.
Charles S. Guggenheimer (B. 10-22-1882) whose purse strings were able to enforce her opinion "(that) the greatest disgrace in the world (is) for a woman to conduct the New York Philharmonic." In 1942, Brico began directing and conducting the Denver Businessmen's Orchestra in its five-concerts-a-year and continued for more than 30 years without a contract.
In 1948 she was named permanent conductor and in 1969 the orchestra was renamed _The Brico Symphony_ in her honor.
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 Novello, Antonia --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
U.S. physician and public official Antonia Novello was both the first Hispanic and the first woman to become surgeon general of the United States.
Her major initiatives included programs to increase AIDS awareness, to stop minors from smoking, and to provide better health care for children, women, and minorities.
She was born Antonia Coello on Aug. 23, 1944, in Fajardo, Puerto…
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In 1942, Brico began directing and conducting the Denver Businessmen's Orchestra in its five-concerts-a-year and continued for more than 30 years without a contract.
In 1948 she was named permanent conductor and in 1969 the orchestra was renamed The Brico Symphony in her honor.
One of her pupils was folksinger Judy Collins who with Jill Godmilow produced the award-winning film Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman, (1974) to highlight a career stymied by gender prejudice.
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 LongGun: Brico, Antonia
Brico moved from her native Netherlands to the United States with her parents in 1908 and settled in California.
She graduated from high school in Oakland in 1919, by which time she had become
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by: Christian M. Immler, Ezio Flagello, Charles Neidich, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Robert Marcellus, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Alexander Schneider [violin], Antonia Brico, Bruno Weil, Eduardo Mata
by: George Goslee, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonia Brico, Bruno Walter, George Szell, Philippe Entremont, Thomas Schippers, Maurice Sharp, Ernani Angelucci, Martin Morris
by: Fryderyk Chopin, Franz Liszt, Sergey Rachmaninov, Domenico Scarlatti, Alexander Scriabin, Spoken Word, Antonia Brico, Simon Barere
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 Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman
Antonia celebrates the determination and accomplishments of a musical pioneer who broadened the criteria for success as a woman and an artist in America.
In 1930, at the age of twenty-eight, Antonia Brico stepped up to the podium of the Berlin Philharmonic and became the first woman to conduct what at the time was considered the world's greatest orchestra.
In this landmark 1974 film, singer/songwriter Judy Collins and filmmaker Jill Godmilow filmed the pioneering orchestra conductor in Denver, where she lived and worked for 30 years.
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A fascinating blend of music, politics, romance and memories, Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman is the story of history's first woman symphony conductor, Dr. Antonia Brico.
The American documentary broke through many boundaries of what was considered "kosher" in the documentary genre by including animation, self-reflection, and dramatically original editing.
Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman features commentary by Collins, a biography, and photo gallery, among other memorabilia.
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 Comedy Central: Movies - Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman - Plot Summary
Singer/songwriter Judy Collins and filmmaker Jill Godmilow were the creative forces behind Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman.
The film traces Brico's struggle to overcome the "good old boy" sexual bias in her profession.
Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman was well distributed on the college campus circuit, then became a staple of arts-oriented cable TV services.
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 Buy.com - Live At Wolf Trap - Judy Collins - CD
Her father, Chuck Collins, was a singer, composer and broadcaster during the golden age of radio.
Collins was studying with mentor Antonia Brico, the famed orchestral conductor who made a name for herself conducting major symphony orchestras in the United States and Europe.
Brico, a fine teacher, believed Collins had a major career ahead as a pianist.
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 Colorado Women's Hall of Fame - Antonia Brico, PhD
Born in Rotterdam, Holland, Antonia Brico was brought to America by abusive foster parents.
She was the first American accepted into the State Academy of Music Master School of Conducting and became a noted interpreter of great symphonic and operatic music who appeared with prominent orchestras throughout the world.
A concert pianist at 19, she opened the Denver-based Brico Music Studio in 1945, where she demonstrated a strict, systematic, and consistent teaching style that produced several successful musicians.
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 Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman is a 1974 documentary about symphony conductor Antonia Brico, including her struggle against gender bias in her profession.
The film was directed by Judy Collins and Jill Godmilow.
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 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Ladies' Band -- Feb. 04, 1935
Roosevelt was so impressed that last week four Brico concerts were announced, the first to be given in Manhattan Feb. 18.
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.
Fact is, the shoulder straps of a conventional evening-gown could never survive an evening of strenuous conducting.
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 Antonia Brico, born in Rotterdam, Holland, conductor/pianist, Antonia June 26 in History
Antonia Brico, born in Rotterdam, Holland, conductor/pianist, Antonia June 26 in History
Antonia Brico, born in Rotterdam, Holland, conductor/pianist, Antonia
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 Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman
Antonia celebrates the determination and accomplishments of a musical pioneer who broadened the criteria for success as a woman and an artist in America.
In 1930, at the age of twenty-eight, Antonia Brico stepped up to the podium of the Berlin Philharmonic and became the first woman to conduct what at the time was considered the world's greatest orchestra.
In this landmark 1974 film, singer/songwriter Judy Collins and filmmaker Jill Godmilow filmed the pioneering orchestra conductor in Denver, where she lived and worked for 30 years.
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 Antonia
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 Gerboth (1990) An inventory of the papers of Dr. Antonia Brico: Collection number 1457 : a holding of the Library of ...
Gerboth (1990) An inventory of the papers of Dr. Antonia Brico: Collection number 1457 : a holding of the Library of the Colorado Historical Society
An inventory of the papers of Dr. Antonia Brico: Collection number 1457 : a holding of the Library of the Colorado Historical Society
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