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Monday, September 15, 2008 12:00 AM

Where are all the female conductors?

A female winner of a BBC conducting competition highlights the lack of women on the podium.
Kate Harding

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  • Monday, September 15, 2008 08:36 AM

    our orchestra's got one, she's great.

    Cynthia Woods of the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra (community orchestra outside of Boston)

    she's my first woman conductor outside of grade school music teachers, and she really gets the music, & she's wonderful at getting us to play correctly without hurt feelings. (musicians are sensitive)

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