| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) |
| Playing Time |
Duration: 60 minutes |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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In Process Record. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Vivace 1 Productions in 2009. |
| Summary |
Stifled by anti-American sentiments towards Americans as musicians and Old World prejudices towards women, Lucy Hickenlooper would later reinvent herself as Olga Samaroff and become one of America's first and perhaps most famous international female concert artist and teacher of the early 20th Century. Virtuoso is the compelling story of an American woman who was a true musical progressive, an achiever, and an innovator. Samaroff's virtuoso career was marked with improbable firsts. She was the first American pianist to perform all 32 Beethoven Sonatas in concert; the first woman music critic for a New York daily newspaper; and among the first pianists to ever make recordings (1908.) In 1944, she saw the immense potential for television and televised a series of lectures with the General Electric Company. Samaroff performed and socialized as the respected and beloved equal among all the leading musical figures of Europe and America. She counted among her personal friends all the great performers and composers of her time. She even married in 1911 one of the legendary conductors, Leopold Stokowski, whose talent she first recognized and career she fostered, even arranging for his first position as a conductor. This 60 minute documentary tells of the true, yet untold story beginning from her life as Lucy Hickenlooper in Texas to her rise as Olga Samaroff, the celebrated concert star of her time. It is an era in our American culture that has largely been underserved in the documentary film genre. Read filmmaker, Donna Kline's, interview here. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Indexed Term |
Gender Studies |
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History - Modern |
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Music |
| Added Author |
Kline, Donna, filmmaker.
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Slick, Wendy, filmmaker.
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Kanopy (Firm)
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| Music No. |
1141807 Kanopy |
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