Marin Alsop made history with her appointment as the 12th music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. With her inaugural concerts in September, she became the first woman to head a major American orchestra. In 2005, Alsop was named a MacArthur Fellow, the first and only conductor to receive this prestigious American award. The three books that most influenced her:
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ."The Magic Mountain" By Thomas Mann (Everyman's Library $26)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ."On the Psychology of the Unconscious" By Carl Jung (Modern Library $24.95)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ."Crime and Punishment" By Fyodor Dostoevsky (Wordsworth Classics $5.95)