Tina Lerner

Tina Lerner (June 5, 1889 – after 1947; in Cyrillic, Тина Лернер) was a Russian-American concert pianist born in Odessa.

[9] In 1917, she was one of the first pianists to give a concert over a radio telephone, when she played aboard a steamship in the Pacific Ocean in a concert that was transmitted to other steamships between San Francisco and Honolulu, on the occasion of George Washington's birthday.

[18] She married conductor Vladimir Shavitch in 1915, a few days after her first marriage was officially ended.

[21][22] Tina Lerner was widowed when Vladimir Shavitch died in 1947;[23] she was living in Florence, Italy, with their daughter by then.

[24][25] Tina Lerner's grave is in the Cimitero Monumentale della Misericordia at Antella, near Florence.