In 1930, Antonia Brico became the first woman to lead the S.F. Symphony in a summer concert in the Civic Auditorium. Four decades later, Sarah Caldwell became the first woman to lead the symphony in a subscription concert.
Left to right: Karina Canellakis, Florence Price, Nokuthula Ngwenyama, Nathalie Stutzmann, Julia Bullock and Xian Zhang.
After centuries of gender discrimination and a terrible time until even the late 20th century, women conductors are no longer the rarest form of musical Earthling.for decades during the bad old times, and have noticed that San Francisco tends to value ability more than gender. Indeed, today the San Francisco Opera has Eun Sun Kim as its music director and a third of San Francisco Symphony’s guest conductors are women. This is still not equality, but certainly progress.
It’s been a long, difficult journey from 1930 when Antonia Brico became the first woman to lead the S.F. Symphony in a summer concert in the Civic Auditorium. To understand how difficult those years were, consider that it took four decades after that 1930 event before Sarah Caldwell became the first woman to lead the San Francisco Symphony in a subscription concert in 1977., Xian Zhang conducts the San Francisco Symphony orchestra.
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