Lesbian Conductor Marin Alsop In Town Friday

Marin Alsop of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is the first female head of a major metropolitan orchestra. She is also an out lesbian. She is guest conducting with the Los Angeles Philharmonic this Friday, December 12 in a program that contains two "wickedly difficult" pieces composed by Brahms (with a violin solo by Nikolaj Znaider) as part of their Casual Friday concerts at the beautiful Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles.