Marin Alsop

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Marin Alsop, no stranger to The Philadelphia Orchestra, will be its next principal guest conductor

Nate Chinen

“I am absolutely delighted to join The Philadelphia Orchestra as principal guest conductor,” Marin Alsop tells WRTI. “My relationship with this fabulous ensemble includes some of my favorite career memories.”

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Marin Alsop leads Holst’s 'The Planets,' and Jennifer Koh plays a violin concerto by Missy Mazzoli

Melinda Whiting

Join us on Sunday, July 9 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, July 10 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a program of Brahms, Holst, and Missy Mazzoli from the 2022/2023 season.

Conductor Marin Alsop, photographed in Vienna on Oct. 23, 2019.

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Renowned conductor Marin Alsop's life explored in new documentary

Scott Simon

Scott Simon speaks with conductor Marin Alsop about "The Conductor," a new film tracing her storied life and career in classical music.

Conductor Marin Alsop, at a performance with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 2006, just before she became the BSO's music director. She's leaving the organization after 14 years.

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Reflections On Connections: Marin Alsop Bids Farewell To Baltimore

NPR Staff

The groundbreaking conductor — the first woman to lead a major American Orchestra — reflects on 14 years as music director of the Baltimore Symphony.

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The Philadelphia Orchestra In Concert on WRTI 90.1: Gershwin's Porgy and Bess and More!

Gregg Whiteside

Little did I know, as I sat in Verizon Hall back on March 7th waiting for the concert to begin, that it would be the last Philadelphia Orchestra concert…

NPR's Scott Simon spoke with Marin Alsop about the end of her tenure as musical director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and a less heralded part of her career: her 1980s swing band.

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Marin Alsop On Her Swing Orchestra And Stepping Down From The Baltimore Symphony

Scott Simon

We learn all kinds of interesting things when we're at loose ends during a pandemic lockdown. Did you know that Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Music Director Marin Alsop co-founded a swing band?

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra percussionist John Locke stands beside conductor Marin Alsop, who holds the giant hammer Gustav Mahler includes in his Sixth Symphony.

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Hammered: Pounding Out The Excess In Mahler's Sixth Symphony

Marin Alsop

At a time when we have become immune to shock and where hyperbole rules, Marin Alsop argues that Mahler's Sixth Symphony provides the perfect soundtrack.

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A Parting Gift — With Legs — For Marin Alsop At The Cabrillo Festival

Marin Alsop

After 25 years directing the contemporary music festival in California, Marin Alsop bids farewell with Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance, a new piece composed for her by John Adams.

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Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue! The Philadelphia Orchestra on WRTI, Sunday, Jan. 10 at 1 PM

Gregg Whiteside

Be sure to join us Sunday, January 10th at 1 pm for our weekly Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcast! Guest conductor Marin Alsop and pianist Jon…

Alexander Scriabin originally set out to write a piece called "Orgiastic Poem," centered on physical ecstasy, but later decided to alter the title to something more ambiguous.

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Postlude To A Kiss: Scriabin's Raging 'Poem Of Ecstasy'

Scott Simon

Mystical Russian composer Alexander Scriabin saw music, heard colors and wrote music that goes from ecstasy to frenzy. Baltimore Symphony conductor Marin Alsop explores Scriabin's best-known piece.