Marin Alsop
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Featured stories:
- Marin Alsop on Music: Mahler's Fifth Symphony: The Everest of Music (Interviews & Profiles)
- Marin Alsop on Music: Rimsky-Korsakov Lets the Symphony Tell the Story (Interviews & Profiles)
- Marin Alsop on Music: Marin Alsop: Orbiting the Symphonies of Brahms (Interviews & Profiles)
- Marin Alsop on Music: Dvorak's Symphonic Journey to the 'New World' (Interviews & Profiles)
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The groundbreaking conductor — the first woman to lead a major American Orchestra — reflects on 14 years as music director of the Baltimore Symphony.
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After he was publicly denounced, Shostakovich rebounded with the compelling and calculated Symphony No. 5. The music supplied a soundtrack for the Soviet people and satisfied the apparatchiks.
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Inspired by Shakespeare, Mendelssohn captures all the magic and frivolity in the music he wrote for the Bard's otherworldy play.
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An action thriller of a symphony, Mahler's First is piled high with ambition, self-reflection and fear. Conductor Marin Alsop shares her approach to Mahler's multilayered music.
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For conductor Marin Alsop, discovering Benjamin Britten through his monumental War Requiem has been both easy and complex — a perfect summation of the man himself.
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Conductor Marin Alsop muses on the enduring qualities of the English composer's first symphony.
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As an opera composer, Verdi was always conscious of dramatic effect. With off-stage trumpets, a pounding bass drum and four vocal soloists, his Requiem Mass really packs a wallop. Conductor Marin Alsop muses on the human story and vivid drama behind one of the master's greatest works.
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To begin her recording career, conductor Marin Alsop was asked to record all of Samuel Barber's orchestral music. She quickly discovered that there's much more to the composer's music than his famed Adagio for Strings.