{"id":34833,"date":"2005-07-22T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2005-07-22T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/07\/22\/marin-alsop-to-be-music-director-of-the-baltimore-symphony-orchestra\/"},"modified":"2005-07-22T10:00:16","modified_gmt":"2005-07-22T10:00:16","slug":"marin-alsop-to-be-music-director-of-the-baltimore-symphony-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050722-16\/?p=34833","title":{"rendered":"Marin Alsop to be music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinalsop.com\/\">Marin Alsop<\/a> has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4761285\"> selected to lead the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra<\/a>. 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlesymphony.org\/symphony\/buy\/single\/production.aspx?id=428\"> perform in Seattle earlier this year<\/a> and thought she did a fine job. If I&#8217;d known she&#8217;d become a big newsmaker a few months later, I would have taken notes!<\/p>\n<p> The focus on her &#8220;breakthrough accomplishment&#8221; just strikes me as odd. I thought we as a society were beyond being concerned about the gender of the best person for the job. I remember somebody asking, &#8220;What it like being from the first state in the United States to have your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.wa.gov\/\"> governor<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cantwell.senate.gov\/\"> both<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/murray.senate.gov\/\"> senators<\/a> all women?&#8221; It never even occurred to me that all three positions were held by women. It struck me as silly as the question, &#8220;What it like being from the first state in the United States to have your governor and both senators all have blonde hair?&#8221; What kind of answer were they looking for? <\/p>\n<p> (Curiously, if you ask Google <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Who+is+the+governor+of+Washington?\"> Who is the governor of Washington?<\/a>, it says the answer is Gary Locke. Don&#8217;t use Google to cheat on your civics exam yet.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-34833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}