Antonia Brico, a conductor who led her own orchestras in the 1930s and who devoted her life to fighting prejudice against women in the orchestral world, has died after a long illness. She died at age ...

Judy Collins was Leonard Cohen’s sounding board as he performed some of his earliest songs in the privacy of her living room in 1966. A writer and poet, Cohen insisted that musicianship wasn’t in his ...

More than anything, Antonia Brico (1902–1989) wanted to be the professional conductor of an established orchestra. Though her dream was stymied by systemic sexism in the classical music world (she ...

No one is exactly telling JoAnn Falletta, “You’ve come a long way, baby,” as the high-achieving conductor readies for her Hollywood Bowl debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Tuesday and Thursday ...

Take a break from the E! True Hollywood Story mode of storytelling that’s currently passing for documentary filmmaking with these three gritty women’s documentaries. They all laughed when Antonia ...

When Ethel Leginska decided ten years ago that she would be a conductor, musicians and laymen regarded her as an eccentric, a publicity seeker who was ambitious beyond her sex. Leginska pioneered ...

She was, she figures, around 9 or 10 when her parents took her to see the legendary Antonia Brico conduct a symphony concert in Denver, Colo. "I decided right then, 'I want to do that,'" says Antonia ...

In 1930, Antonia Brico became the first woman to conduct the San Francisco Symphony. After emigrating from the Netherlands as a child, Brico grew up in Oakland and studied music at UC Berkeley. She ...

At the 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 ...