[Dixielandjazz] "Intelligent Risks"

[Mike C.]

Marin Alsop was the principal conductor for the Colorado 
Symphony Orchestra for quite some time.

Mike

Steve barbone wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
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-- 
"The trouble with most musicians today is that they are 
copycats. Of
course you have to start out playing like someone else. You 
have a
model, or a teacher, and you learn all that he can show you. 
But then
you start playing for yourself. Show them that you're an 
individual. I
can count those who are doing that today on the fingers of 
one hand."
-Lester Young (1909-1959)

"I'm the oldest bass player standin', I got shoes as old as 
you."
-Milt Hinton (1910-2000)

"I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where 
I've been."
-Billie Holiday (1915-1959)

"You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the 
music of
Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has 
gone on for
centuries and centuries. We have the same obligation. Why 
have we become
so 'hip' that we can say,'Bebop is square,'or 'New Orleans 
is square'?
This, to me, is a shame."
-Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1936-1977)

"The boppers flat their fifths, we consume ours."
-Eddie Condon (1905-1973)