Marin Alsop

black-and-white photo of Leonard Bernstein standing in front of a blackboard with staff lines on it

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The Bernstein Effect: Leonard Bernstein's Conducting Legacy

Jennifer Hambrick

There's Leonard Bernstein, the composer of all that splashy, jazzy music for West Side Story. There’s Leonard Bernstein, the showy — some might say…

Marin Alsop is the music director of the Baltimore Orchestra Symphony.

Conducting Class At The Peabody Conservatory With Marin Alsop

Scott Simon

Weekend Edition's Scott Simon visits the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, where Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Music Director Marin Alsop hands him a baton and offers a few pointers.

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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Marin Alsop to Conduct in Havana, Cuba October 9

On Friday, American conductor Marin Alsop will lead the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra in a concert in the Plaza de la Catedral in Old Havana,…