Taking Up The Baton, Alsop Puts Her Plans In Motion

This week, Marin Alsop became the first woman to lead a major American orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. “But smashing through gender barriers is only one of the ways Maestro Alsop is trying to rethink and rejuvenate the symphony orchestra in the 21st century. Her other plans are more radical. She aspires to make symphony halls welcoming places, not austere temples of culture where only the cognoscenti dare enter.”