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Article: Colorado conductor Alsop directs `Women in Concert Hall'.(Arts & Entertainment)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 26, 2001
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Marin Alsop inevitably carries the label "a woman in a man's world" as one of the few female orchestra conductors in this country.
But Ms. Alsop, music director of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, definitely will be a woman in a woman's world next weekend. She will direct the National Symphony Orchestra's "Women in the Concert Hall" festival at the Kennedy Center.
Ms. Alsop also is principal guest conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and of the City of London Sinfonia, founder of a chamber symphony group called Concordia and the founder-leader of String Fever. This 10-piece all-woman string swing band will perform with singer Patti ...