Highlights
In 2005, Marin Alsop made history when she became the first woman to be named music director of a major U.S. orchestra. Alsop was appointed as the successor to Russian conductor Yuri Temirkanov as director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Her inaugural season began in 2007, though she served as interim director the previous year. The announcement came at a time of resentment among musicians toward the BSO management, and the players balked at the method of choosing Alsop. However, once Alsop came on board and several managers departed, morale improved. Alsop is credited with introducing more modern music to the BSO's repertoire and embracing technology. Under Alsop, the BSO released a li...
In 2005, Marin Alsop made history when she became the first woman to be named music director of a major U.S. orchestra. Alsop was appointed as the successor to Russian conductor Yuri Temirkanov as director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Her inaugural season began in 2007, though she served as interim director the previous year. The announcement came at a time of resentment among musicians toward the BSO management, and the players balked at the method of choosing Alsop. However, once Alsop came on board and several managers departed, morale improved. Alsop is credited with introducing more modern music to the BSO's repertoire and embracing technology. Under Alsop, the BSO released a live performance of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" on iTunes, and her debut was broadcast live on XM Satellite Radio. The orchestra also had its first commercial recording in eight years, a performance of John Corigliano's "Red Violin Concerto" with Joshua Bell. Alsop brings to the BSO a wealth of experience. She founded her own orchestra when she couldn't get into Julliard's conducting program. She studied with Leonard Bernstein and became music director of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. In 2002, she was the first woman to be named principal conductor of a major British orchestra. In 2005, she was one of the recipients of the MacArthur genius grant, an award of $500,000 that recognizes "creativity, originality and potential."
Displaying items 1-12 of 36
» View baltimoresun.com items only
1
2
3
•
Next >
-
Handel with flair
Comfort ye who prefer Handel's Messiah just the way it was written in 1741. The version of the beloved oratorio being performed this weekend by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Morgan State University Choir may seem as if it has gone astray like sheep...Tags: Leonard Bernstein, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Morgan State University, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Rhythm and Blues
-
Many blessings in area's musical circles, but tough times are ahead
Music lovers have a lot to be grateful for in this area: An orchestra of international standing, along with several smaller ensembles, all producing remarkably effective performances on a regular basis. A fine, full-sized opera company, along with some of...Tags: Opera, Metal and Mineral, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Disasters
-
Giving thanks for words well-delivered
"… The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Americans were scared, but they got it. In the midst of the Great Depression, struggling to feed their families, they kept hope alive with the help of FDR....Tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, Harriet Tubman, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Democracy, Lou Gehrig
-
For the upscale class of depressed patients
Sheppard Pratt seems to have found its target market: readers of The New Yorker. The Towson psychiatric hospital ran not one but two ads in the Nov. 3 issue. There's yet another in the Nov. 24 edition. Perhaps anyone who understands those one-panel...Tags: Michael Phelps, Hazelnuts, Local Authority, Matzoh, Hospitals and Clinics
-
3 musical centuries
The Annapolis Symphony Orchestra saluted the 300th anniversary of its hometown last weekend with a musical history tour that covered the past three centuries and also took a brief look at the present. It seemed doubly appropriate for such activity to take...Tags: Arcangelo Corelli, Music Industry, Classical Music, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
-
Symphony provides artistic magnificence
Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra have done it again ("Despite flaws, BSO's 'Mass' is compelling," Oct. 17). They have provided our region the opportunity to experience an artistic magnificence seldom achieved even in the world's greatest...Tags: Leonard Bernstein, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
-
BSO rocks New York with 'Mass'
"This is exactly what my father wanted," Jamie Bernstein said yesterday afternoon, wiping away tears after a gripping performance of Leonard Bernstein's Mass led by Marin Alsop in the vast, gilded United Palace Theater at 175th St. and Broadway. "This was...Tags: Leonard Bernstein, Culture, Morgan State University, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall
-
First-graders get chance to play with the big kids
It may have sounded like musical pandemonium to an outsider, but those violin squeals, twittering flutes and rich mahogany-sounding notes emanating from bass fiddles and cellos late yesterday morning in the Aaron and Lillie Straus Foundation Recital...Tags: Elementary Schools, Harriet Tubman, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
-
Bernstein's 'Mass'
Leonard Bernstein wrestled much of his life with issues of religion, politics and social conscience. He poured a combustible mix of feelings about those topics into a huge "theater piece for singers, players and dancers" called Mass, composed for the...Tags: Leonard Bernstein, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Classical Music, Morgan State University, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
-
Despite flaws, BSO's 'Mass' is compelling
It is impossible to be noncommittal about Leonard Bernstein's unprecedented, unbridled, unapologetic Mass. Since its premiere in 1971 for the opening of the Kennedy Center, this "theatre piece for singers, players and dancers" has generated strong...Tags: Religious Events, Leonard Bernstein, Rituals, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Classical Music
-
BSO explores worlds of Mahler and Bernstein
"Any composer's writing is the sum of himself, of all his roots and influences," Leonard Bernstein wrote. "I have deep roots, each different from one another. I can only hope it adds up to something you could call universal." Gustav Mahler felt pretty...Tags: Leonard Bernstein, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Classical Music, Music Industry, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
-
Yo-Yo Ma collaborates again with the BSO for gala
I kind of grew up with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra," says Yo-Yo Ma, the exceedingly gifted and adventurous cellist who will be the featured artist in the BSO's season-launching gala Saturday. "So I'm very excited about doing the opening concert."...Tags: Clothing and Textiles Industry, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, James Taylor, Yo-Yo Ma, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Dec 4, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 27, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 27, 2008
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Nov 23, 2008
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Nov 13, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Oct 24, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Oct 26, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 9, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Sep 5, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Oct 17, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Sep 26, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Sep 11, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
