Samaroff

Olga [nie Hic ken looper], pst b. at the military post of San Antonio, Tex., Aug. 8, 1881; her grandmother, Mrs. L P. Grunewald, in her younger days a concert pianist of Munich, and later m New Orleans, was her first teacher; later she studied in Pans with the elder Marm on tel and Widor; in 1895 she entered the cla of Del a borde in the Conservatoire, the first A men can woman to be admitted to the piano cla es; from Paris she went to Berlin and studied under Jedliczka; her general education was received from private teachers and in the Couvent du St. Sacrement, Paris; profe ional career began in New York, Jan. 18. 1905, with the N. Y. Symphony Orchestra; she has had three American, three London, and one Continental season, about 300 concerts and recitals up to season of 1909-1910, appearing with the leading orchestras; married Stokovski,condr. Cincinnati Orch., 1911.