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Marin Alsop
12+ albums
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Marin Alsop (born October 16, 1956) is an American conductor and violinist. She is the current music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Alsop was born in New York City to professional musician parents. She attended Yale University, but later transferred to the Juilliard School, where she earned her bachelor's and master's degrees, both in violin. She founded the string ensemble String Fever in 1981. She won the Koussevitzky Prize as outstanding student conductor at the Tanglewood Music Center in 1989, where she studied under Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, and Gustav Meier, among others. Alsop has been music director of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz, California since 1991. The festival specializes in contemporary orchestral music. From 1993 to 2005, she was music director of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, initially starting with the title principal conductor. She is now the orchestra's conductor laureate. She has also served as music director of the Eugene Symphony in Eugene, Oregon. She was associate conductor of the Richmond Symphony in Richmond, Virginia from 1988 to 1990. On September 20, 2005, Alsop became the first conductor ever to receive the MacArthur Fellowship. In September 2007, Alsop was appointed the music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO). Alsop became BSO's Music Director Designate in the 2006-2007 concert season, and in the 2007–2008 season, she assumed the orchestra's directorship, thus becoming
top songs
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Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90: I. Allegro con brio - Un poco sostenuto - Tempo I
1,2182Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90: III. Poco Allegretto
1,0883Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90: II. Andante
1,0814Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90: IV. Allegro
1,0265Nixon in China: Act I Scene 1: Beginning
5196Nixon in China: Act I Scene 1: Soldiers of heaven hold the sky (Chorus)
4097Nixon in China: Act I Scene 1: The people are the heroes now (Chorus)
3908Nixon in China: Act I Scene 1: Landing of the Spirit of '76
3579Nixon in China: Act I Scene 1: Your flight was smooth, I hope? (Chou, Nixon)
32310Nixon in China: Act I Scene 1: News has a kind of mystery (Nixon, Chou, Kissinger, Chorus)
294albums
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I Love the 80s, Vol. 1 (1880s)
Adams, J.: Nixon in China
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Bernstein, L.: Mass
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Antonin Dvorak : Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" - Symphonic Variations
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Macmillan, J.: Confession of Isobel Gowdie (The) / Ades, T.: Chamber Symphony / Higdon, J.: Percussion Concerto
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Bernstein: Candide
Prokofiev : Romeo & Juliet, Op. 64
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Brahms: Symphony No. 4 / Hungarian Dances Nos. 2, 4-9
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Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"
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Brahms: Symphony No.1, Overtures
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GLASS: Symphony No. 4, "Heroes" / The Light
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Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 (Re-Orchestrated by G. Mahler)