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To: nwrep

Three names: Marin Alsop, Rachel Worby and Margaret Hillis.


3 posted on 11/25/2017 5:26:39 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: Publius
Three names: Marin Alsop, Rachel Worby and Margaret Hillis.

I guess I tend to agree with Jansons on this. While I am sure it is possible that a woman can be a great conductor (there are certainly many great women orchestra members and soloists), I would probably eschew a recording by a woman conductor for fear that she's an affirmative action hire and not really very good. The fact that Jansons had to apologize shows that women conductors are a protected class like any other class that receives the benefits of affirmative action.

I did buy a Marin Alsop recording once of the Brahms 1st. I bought it because it was in SACD format. However, the performance sounded to me like a copy of Bernstein's versions. From that point, I started to think of her as an unoriginal conductor. I may have been wrong, but there are so many great recordings by so many great conductors that I don't feel inclined to listen to any more women conductors unless I read a rave review by a reviewer I trust.

47 posted on 11/27/2017 8:57:56 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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