Concert violinist, vocalist, composer, and groundbreaking symphony conductor. Her first professional performance was at age 8 at the Empire Theater in San Francisco. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in music from Berkeley at age 15. She then moved to New York and studied under Leopold Auer. At age 17, she began her first world tour, performing in Europe, the Far East, Canada, and settling for a time in Hawaii. Returning to her hometown in 1932, she taught at Mills College in Oakland, California, and continued to perform and conduct various orchestras, including the Monterey Peninsula Orchestra. She became the first woman conductor of the Pantages Orchestra, and the first woman conductor on the West Coast. She threatened to quit performing rather than to play ragtime music. Daughter of Ella Grusenmeyer Weston, renowned theatrical booking agent and vocalist, and William "Billy" Weston, theater empresario and movie producer and director. The 1900 US Census shows the family name as Goebel, which Carrie adopted as her middle name when her parents started using Weston.
Concert violinist, vocalist, composer, and groundbreaking symphony conductor. Her first professional performance was at age 8 at the Empire Theater in San Francisco. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in music from Berkeley at age 15. She then moved to New York and studied under Leopold Auer. At age 17, she began her first world tour, performing in Europe, the Far East, Canada, and settling for a time in Hawaii. Returning to her hometown in 1932, she taught at Mills College in Oakland, California, and continued to perform and conduct various orchestras, including the Monterey Peninsula Orchestra. She became the first woman conductor of the Pantages Orchestra, and the first woman conductor on the West Coast. She threatened to quit performing rather than to play ragtime music. Daughter of Ella Grusenmeyer Weston, renowned theatrical booking agent and vocalist, and William "Billy" Weston, theater empresario and movie producer and director. The 1900 US Census shows the family name as Goebel, which Carrie adopted as her middle name when her parents started using Weston.
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