The celebrated conductor brought Her Story, a potent piece by Julia Wolfe, to Kennedy Center audiences recently. Conductor Marin Alsop on Trump, the Kennedy Center and why art is bipartisan Conductor ...

MARIN ALSOP: So in this particular piece, I have to have a lot of light on me because the orchestra is often in the dark, so they have to always see me. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We're on stage at the ...

Marin Alsop, one of the first women to helm a major American orchestra, offered another form of leadership at Abravanel Hall last week as she received a prestigious award that in years past has gone ...

There’s a lot more to leading an orchestra than podium skills, so if you think just anyone can wave that little stick around in time to the music, forget about it. That said, the Colorado Symphony ...

Alsop kept her Kennedy Center performances with the National Symphony Orchestra recently because, she says, art is bigger than this moment and should be celebrated. "Art is about the human spirit ...