Marin Alsop
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Marin Alsop is an American conductor. She is the first woman to win the Koussevitzky Prize for conducting and the first conductor to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She is music director laureate o
Alsop, on the right, at a charity function in Baltimore in 2016
Alsop with OSESP
Leonard Bernstein
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Leonard Bernstein was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first American-b
Marin Alsop
…River. She won the Koussevitzky Prize as outstanding student conductor at the Tanglewood Music Center in 1989, where she met her hero and future mentor Leonard Bernstein. She was the first woman to win the prize. In 2005, Alsop was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as the "Genius Grant," in recognition of…
Bernstein in 1977
Leonard Bernstein and Benny Goodman in rehearsal, ca. 1940–1949
Photo of Bernstein by Carl Van Vechten (1944)
Carnegie Hall playbill, November 14, 1943 Radio announcement: