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In 2005, Marin Alsop made history when she became the first woman to be named music director of a major U.S. orchestra. Alsop was appointed as the successor to Russian conductor Yuri Temirkanov as director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Her inaugural season began in 2007, though she served as interim director the previous year. The announcement came at a time of resentment among musicians toward the BSO management, and the players balked at the method of choosing Alsop. However, once Alsop came on board and several managers departed, morale improved. Alsop is credited with introducing more modern music to the BSO's repertoire and embracing technology. Under Alsop, the BSO released a li...
In 2005, Marin Alsop made history when she became the first woman to be named music director of a major U.S. orchestra. Alsop was appointed as the successor to Russian conductor Yuri Temirkanov as director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Her inaugural season began in 2007, though she served as interim director the previous year. The announcement came at a time of resentment among musicians toward the BSO management, and the players balked at the method of choosing Alsop. However, once Alsop came on board and several managers departed, morale improved. Alsop is credited with introducing more modern music to the BSO's repertoire and embracing technology. Under Alsop, the BSO released a live performance of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" on iTunes, and her debut was broadcast live on XM Satellite Radio. The orchestra also had its first commercial recording in eight years, a performance of John Corigliano's "Red Violin Concerto" with Joshua Bell. Alsop brings to the BSO a wealth of experience. She founded her own orchestra when she couldn't get into Julliard's conducting program. She studied with Leonard Bernstein and became music director of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. In 2002, she was the first woman to be named principal conductor of a major British orchestra. In 2005, she was one of the recipients of the MacArthur genius grant, an award of $500,000 that recognizes "creativity, originality and potential."
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That's a wrap for the BSO
With a coming-full-circle flourish, the Baltimore Symphony is putting the grand in the grand finale of its 2008-2009 season. Way back in September, music director Marin Alsop started things off with the Immolation Scene from Wagner's Gotterdammerung,...Tags: Music Theater, Classical Music, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
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Alsop rock-solid, Hahn shows bravura in violin concerto
Shortly after signing a new five-year contract that will keep her in the post of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra music director until 2015, Marin Alsop led the ensemble in a hefty program Thursday night that included the East Coast premiere of Jennifer...Tags: Classical Music, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
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Alsop's new contract is reason to be upbeat
It has not been the happiest of music seasons in Baltimore, not with the death of a once-proud opera company and cutbacks or postponements by other organizations struggling with the economic downturn. So the news late last week from the Baltimore Symphony...Tags: Classical Music, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Gustav Mahler, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Indianapolis
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Marin Alsop to remain music director of BSO until at least 2015
Baltimore Sun reporterMarin Alsop, the dynamic American conductor who became the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's 12th music director in September 2007, will remain in that post until 2015 under the terms of a five-year contract announced Thursday. That contract will begin...Tags: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Contracts, Leonard Bernstein
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BSO violinist takes intense approach
Jonathan Carney puts his whole body into each phrase of music, making it impossible to miss him when he's playing violin from the concertmaster's chair in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Even if you couldn't see him, you'd probably know he was there,...Tags: Classical Music, Music Theater, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Colleges and Universities
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Classical rock
A night at the symphony is the most sought-after concert ticket in town this week. But while conductor Marin Alsop and her Baltimore orchestra will be on stage, they're not exactly the main draw.
That would be Trey Anastasio, the guitarist and vocalist...Tags: Phish (band), Classical Music, Led Zeppelin (band), Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
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No casualties in BSO, Phish clash of styles
Musical worlds collided Thursday night when rocker Trey Anastasio took the stage with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and conductor Marin Alsop. There were no casualties. Anastasio, founding member of Phish and a songwriter with a refreshing avoidance...Tags: Phish (band), Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Music Industry, Death and Dying, Trey Anastasio
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BSO concert goes American with vigor
Ideally, concertgoers in this country would know and love at least two big, hearty all-American symphonies - I'd vote for No. 2 by Charles Ives and No. 3 by Aaron Copland - as deeply as they embrace European classics. But that's not likely to happen if...Tags: Classical Music, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Aaron Copland, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Charles Ives
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BSO musicians volunteer $1 million in givebacks
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians volunteered to give back $1 million in wage increases and other benefits next season to help the organization weather the recession, while challenging supporters to raise an additional $2 million in matching funds to...Tags: Government, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Walters Art Museum, Layoffs and Downsizing, National Government
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Playing their part
After a Sunday concert last fall, members of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra stayed late at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall to record a performance of Dvorak's 7th Symphony with Music Director Marin Alsop. When the session ended, BSO President Paul Meecham...Tags: Classical Music, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Walters Art Museum, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore Museum of Art
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Downsizing hits orchestras, operas
U.S. orchestras and opera companies are cutting budgets, laying off staff, reducing salaries and generally digging in in the face of declining ticket sales, donations and endowments. Here is some of the bad news: --Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians...Tags: Music Theater, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Layoffs and Downsizing, Unemployment, Music Industry
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Female conductors crack the glass podium
In March, Xian Zhang made history: The Giuseppe Verdi Orchestra in Milan appointed the 35-year-old conductor to the position of music director, making her the first woman to earn that title with an Italian symphony orchestra. Pope Benedict XVI attended...Tags: Classical Music, Government, Sarah Caldwell, Grammy Awards, National Government
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