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Marin Alsop Quotes

born 1956 United States

Marin Alsop (/ˈmærɪn ˈɔːlsəp/; born October 16, 1956, in New York City, New York) is an American-born Austrian conductor, the first woman to win the Koussevitzky Prize for conducting and the first conductor to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She is music director laureate of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Ravinia Festival.

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But, fundamentally, I think goodness is very underrated.

We could have been programming work by under-represented people for the last 50 years, but the choice was not to. We could have had women on the podium, but the choice was not to.

There are so many men — actual, documented men — this film could have been based on but, instead, it puts a woman in the role but gives her all the attributes of those men. That feels antiwoman. To assume that women will either behave identically to men or become hysterical, crazy, insane is to perpetuate something we’ve already seen on film so many times before.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Marin Alsop (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.