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elleng

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Mon Jan 29, 2018, 05:01 PM Jan 2018

Marin Alsop to become first female chief conductor of ORF Vienna Radio Symphony.

'Baltimore Symphony Orchestra music director Marin Alsop, whose career has included the breaking of glass ceilings worldwide, will break another one when she becomes the first female chief conductor of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Her initial three-year contract begins in September 2019, the year the ensemble, associated with the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (Osterreichischer Rundfunk), marks its 50th anniversary.'>>>

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/artsmash/bs-fe-alsop-vienna-orchestra-20180129-story.html

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Marin Alsop to become first female chief conductor of ORF Vienna Radio Symphony. (Original Post) elleng Jan 2018 OP
well deserved... dhill926 Jan 2018 #1
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Mon Jan 29, 2018, 08:44 PM
Jan 2018

is so proud of it's female symphony conductors who gave us so much and then moved on to the world's top orchestras.

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