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Classic Arts News Concertgebouw Orchestra Invites First Woman to the Podium Marin Alsop will conduct Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra later this year, making her the first woman ever to lead the 116-year old orchestra, the Associated Press reports.
Alsop, the music director of England's Bournemouth Symphony and the former music director of the Colorado Symphony, will lead a program of music by Dmitri Shostakovich on June 8.

Asked why a woman had never conducted the group, spokesman Sjoerd van den Berg said, "It's very simple. In our eyes there were no good female conductors until now."

 
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