It Wasn't Teatime

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In the bad old days - and they weren't very long ago - women were barred from playing in professional orchestras. Along came the talented and daring Ethel Stark. In 1940, she founded The Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra, which eventually became the first-ever Canadian orchestra to play Carnegie Hall. David Gutnick's documentary is called It Wasn't Teatime: Ethel Stark and the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra.