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  • Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
    Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

    She played with the American Symphony Orchestra (1965–72) under conductor Leopold Stokowski at a time when there were few women musicians in the major orchestras. Also in New York she married Joseph Zwilich, a violinist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; he died of a heart attack in 1979. In…

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    She played with the American Symphony Orchestra (1965–72) under conductor Leopold Stokowski at a time when there were few women musicians in the major orchestras. Also in New York she married Joseph Zwilich, a violinist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; he died of a heart attack in 1979. In…

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