The Old New Thing

Marin Alsop to be music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

July 22, 2005 Jul 22, 2005 07/22/05

Raymond Chen

Marin Alsop has been selected to lead the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The development has gotten a lot of attention, presumably, because this makes Maestra Alsop (as she prefers to be called) the first woman to be named music director of a major U.S. orchestra. I saw her perform in Seattle earlier this year and thought she did a fine job. ...