Music lovers who live about San Francisco Bay flocked, one chilly night last week, to the University of California's Berkeley campus to hear the first symphony concert presented in the Greek Theatre—the gift of Publisher William Randolph Hearst—in seven years. Snug in overcoats, the audience found the renditions of Weber, Rimsky-Korsakov and Wagner workmanlike but uninspired, applauded the occasion rather than the music. For it was a night of records. The conductor was black-haired, bright-eyed Antonia Brico, first woman ever to conduct Berlin's philharmonic orchestra, first woman to conduct San Francisco's symphony...
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