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I will admit that I am not a huge font of knowledge when it comes to classical music and I don't know what the "major" orchestras are in the US (beyond New York, Cleveland, Chicago, LA and Boston), but Anne Manson was the one of the first three women to serve as musical director of a leading American symphony and that was almost ten years ago when she took over the podium for the Kansas City Symphony. My knowledge of classical music being pretty thin, I don't know if "Musical Director" is the same as "Conductor" but I know that she was both during her time in Kansas City.
The Kansas City Symphony is, of course, not the New York Philharmonic and I'm not suggesting that there isn't a dearth of female conductors, but I wonder if maybe this isn't as newsworthy as Broadsheet is making it out to be.
