POST 7: EXPERT OR WEBSITE

 Antonia Louisa Brico is a pianist who was born on June 26, 1902 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. She was adopted by the Wolthuis family and renamed Wilhelmina Wolthuis, emigrating with them to the United States in 1907. She studied at the University of California at Berkeley to study liberal arts, then studied piano in New York with one of the most influential pianists of the time, Sigismond Stokowski. He then went to Edinburgh to study orchestral conducting with Karl Muck at the Berlin State Academy of Music. 

Brico is well known for being "The first woman conductor", she became the conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and in 1934, she created the New York Women's Symphony, being supported by Eleanor Roosevelt, who at that time was the first lady of the United States.

For the reasons I admire Brico is for the hard work she did in her time to vindicate women as instrumentalist and orchestral conductor, which in the first half of the 20th century was unthinkable, since a woman could not conduct a group of men, her life was marked by overcoming thousands of social obstacles, despite her great talent it took her many years to make a name for herself in the music industry.