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Marin Alsop
American conductor Marin Alsop was the first woman to lead major orchestras in the UK, South America and in the United States, becoming principal conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 2007. Nominated for Grammy Awards five times, in 2013 she became the first ever woman to lead the Last Night Of The Proms, and is now regarded as one of the greatest conductors in the world.
She talks to John Wilson about her professional musician parents who nurtured her love of music and supported her career choice from the age of 9 when she first revealed she wanted to be a conductor. Marin also talks about Leonard Bernstein, the great American composer and conductor, who inspired her ambitions and later became a mentor to her. She also chooses Carl Jung's work The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, and explains how his theories have helped her in leading orchestras around the world.
Producer: Edwina Pitman
Music and archive used:
Serenade in C major for String Orchestra, Op. 48; Valse, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, New York City Ballet Orchestra, 1986
Irish Spring commercial: "Clean as a Whistle" 1980
Leonard Bernstein, Young People's Concerts: "What is Classical Music?", CBS Television, 24 January 1959
Omnibus: Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story, BBC2, 10 May 1985
Archive of Leonard Bernstein and Marin Alsop at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, 1987
Leonard Bernstein, Young People's Concerts: "What Does Music Mean?", CBS Television, 18 January 1958
Archive of OrchKids concert, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4, 26 July, 2005
Rhapsody in Blue, George Gershwin, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
Last Night of the Proms, BBC1, 7 September 2013
Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, "Resurrection", Gustav Mahler, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
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American conductor Marin Alsop was the first woman to lead major orchestras in the UK, South America and in the United States, becoming principal conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 2007. Nominated for Grammy Awards five times, in 2013 she became the first ever woman to lead the Last Night Of The Proms, and is now regarded as one of the greatest conductors in the world.
She talks to John Wilson about her professional musician parents who nurtured her love of music and supported her career choice from the age of 9 when she first revealed she wanted to be a conductor. Marin also talks about Leonard Bernstein, the great American composer and conductor, who inspired her ambitions and later became a mentor to her. She also chooses Carl Jung's work The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, and explains how his theories have helped her in leading orchestras around the world.
Producer: Edwina Pitman
Music and archive used:
Serenade in C major for String Orchestra, Op. 48; Valse, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, New York City Ballet Orchestra, 1986
Irish Spring commercial: "Clean as a Whistle" 1980
Leonard Bernstein, Young People's Concerts: "What is Classical Music?", CBS Television, 24 January 1959
Omnibus: Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story, BBC2, 10 May 1985
Archive of Leonard Bernstein and Marin Alsop at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, 1987
Leonard Bernstein, Young People's Concerts: "What Does Music Mean?", CBS Television, 18 January 1958
Archive of OrchKids concert, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4, 26 July, 2005
Rhapsody in Blue, George Gershwin, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
Last Night of the Proms, BBC1, 7 September 2013
Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, "Resurrection", Gustav Mahler, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
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