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Top female conductor says fight for orchestra equality has stalled
Marin Alsop still suffers ‘archaic, old-fashioned views’ even from young male colleagues The world’s leading female conductor has said that there is a plateauing in the fight for equality in the orchestral pit as she prepares to bring an opera based on Billie Jean King’s epic Battle of the Sexes to Britain. Marin Alsop said...
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The Conductor Documentary
The Conductor takes the audience into the heart of classical music, and into the soul of one of its top artists, the internationally renowned conductor Marin Alsop — the first woman to serve as music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra — giving us backstage passes to the artistry and energy that rewards her audiences and inspires her students.
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