[Dixielandjazz] "Intelligent Risks"

[Steve barbone]

Just a quick snip about the first woman to be named to conduct a major US
Symphony Orchestra. She says it is an opportunity to take intelligent risks.
Yep, that's what its all about and it seems as if Ms. Alsop has been doing
that with more balls than most men.

Wish she was an OKOM band leader. :-) VBG.

If anyone wants the full article, write me off list.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone


Near a Breakthrough at the Baltimore Symphony (snip)

By JEREMY EICHLER Published: July 16, 2005 NY Times

The conducting podiums of large American orchestras have historically been
an all-male province, but the Baltimore Symphony may finally be changing
that. On Wednesday, a 21-member search committee voted to make the American
conductor Marin Alsop the orchestra's next music director. If her
appointment is ratified by the orchestra's board on Tuesday, she will become
the first woman to lead a major American orchestra.
 
Ms. Alsop, 48, is currently principal conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony
Orchestra in England,

"It's an opportunity to take intelligent risks," Marin Alsop said.