Monday, March 14, 2011

Baltimore Symphony plans to showcase ‘revolutionary women’

“Revolutionary women,” including Joan of Arc and Harriet Tubman, will be showcased during the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s 2011-2012 season, which also packs in music by some relatively revolutionary men, too.
BSO music director Marin Alsop, something of a revolutionary herself in a profession still dominated by males, will lead the orchestra in performances of Arthur Honegger’s rarely encountered 1935 oratorio “Jeanne d’Arc au Boucher” (“Joan of Arc at the

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