Showing posts with label Marin Alsop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marin Alsop. Show all posts
Saturday, March 09, 2019

Crossing the line of dreams

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Roxanna Panufnik and I have been working on our first collaboration since Silver Birch. It's being premiered this week in Baltimore unde...
Thursday, March 15, 2018

Deeds, Not Words: a guest post by Zerlina Vulliamy

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Music student Zerlina Vulliamy was playing the trumpet in the WOW Women of the World Women's Orchestra on Sunday in the annual Mirth Con...
Monday, January 29, 2018

Marin takes Vienna

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Marin Alsop's selfie from the Last Night of the Proms Heartening news this morning that Marin Alsop has been appointed chief condu...
Friday, February 05, 2016

How I didn't quite meet Helen Mirren, and other stories

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This is one busy week. If you missed me and Marin Alsop on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour yesterday, you can listen to it online, here  http...
Wednesday, February 03, 2016

How Marin is changing the world

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A few weeks ago I went to listen to Marin Alsop giving masterclasses for young women conductors and had a terrific interview with her. She i...
Monday, February 01, 2016

Eight and a half days...

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I have a busy week ahead! Please come and join in if you can make it to any of these. One, of course, only involves your kitchen radio. TU...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

Why the male domination of classical music may be coming to an end...

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What I've been writing this week.  http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/28/why-male-domination-of-classical-music-might-end
Monday, September 09, 2013

My first (real) Last Night

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I was here the other night... Yep, Last Night of the Proms. Sneaky admission: I've been watching it on TV for decades, thinking about...
Thursday, September 05, 2013

Fanfare for the uncommon woman conductor

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Following that rather daft public row about Vassily Petrenko's alleged remarks re women conductors , I thought we'd do something con...