This is my tribute to my childhood music teacher and lifetime beloved friend, Antonia Brico.
Don Robertson
Antonia Brico with Don Robertson (1946)
Antonia Brico with Don Robertson (1983))
Antonia – Portrait of the Woman, directed by Judy Collins and Jill Godmilow (1974)
The Conductor, directed by Maria Peters, starring Christanne de Bruijn (2018)
Read: Brico’s Baton: A Woman’s Whisper in the Roar of MenHERE
“After not having seen Antonia Brico since my childhood, I contacted her in 1975. She invited me to a rehearsal of Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7, and this was an experience that I will never forget. “There are very few recordings of her conducting an orchestra, but here is one (thanks to the important abruckner.com website). Two movements from a performance of the Bruckner seventh symphony are included in this recording of a performance with the St. Olaf College Orchestra (in Minnesota) on April 17, 1977.”