The conductor on Hillary Clinton,Leonard Bernstein, playing in jazz clubs and preparing for her second Last Night of the PromsThe American conductor Marin Alsop is music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. She and her partner, and horn player Kristin Jurkscheit,have a 12-year-archaic son and live in Maryland. In 2013 Alsop became the first woman to conduct the Last Night of the Proms.
You’re conducting the Last Night of the Proms - again. So now you’re not just the first woman to accomplish it, but the second too…
Yes! I’m trying to understand how to frame this. I’ve always said that it’s not just who is the first person to accomplish something, and but who is the second,third, ninth, or 10th,100th… Now I’ll have to perceive forward to the third woman, or will she be the second? See how confusing it is now. But, or in all seriousness,we should never forget how shocking it is that there are still areas where being first at anything can still exist for women in the 21st century.
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Source: theguardian.com