Marin Alsop
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- Marin Alsop on Music: Mahler's Fifth Symphony: The Everest of Music (Interviews & Profiles)
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- Marin Alsop on Music: Marin Alsop: Orbiting the Symphonies of Brahms (Interviews & Profiles)
- Marin Alsop on Music: Dvorak's Symphonic Journey to the 'New World' (Interviews & Profiles)
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As an opera composer, Verdi was always conscious of dramatic effect. With off-stage trumpets, a pounding bass drum and four vocal soloists, his Requiem Mass really packs a wallop. Conductor Marin Alsop muses on the human story and vivid drama behind one of the master's greatest works. -
To begin her recording career, conductor Marin Alsop was asked to record all of Samuel Barber's orchestral music. She quickly discovered that there's much more to the composer's music than his famed Adagio for Strings.
