Dallas Opera picks six more women conductors
mainpress release:
The Dallas Opera is proud to announce the names of the six distinguished professionals selected to participate in the third annual residency of the Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors at The Dallas Opera taking place November 5 – 19, 2017 in Dallas, Texas:
- Alba Bomfim (Brazil)
- Mélisse Brunet (France)
- Lina Gonzalez-Granados (USA/Colombia)
- Karin Hendrickson (USA)
- Carolyn Watson (USA/Australia)
- Monika Wolinska (Poland)
A total of 161 women conductors and professional musicians applied by the April 30thdeadline.
Is there some difference between a ‘woman conductor’ and a ‘professional musician’ that I’m missing?
Yes. All (professional) female conductors are professional musicians; not all professional musicians are women (or conductors).
Exploiting women loke this, to gain media attention one could not gain through artistic merits, is not ok.
How do you know they could not gain attention through artistic merit?
Why would you think they have no artistic merit? Seems to me that you are just a troll.
I didn’t say they have no artistic merits. I said they can’t gain media attention as easily through them as they can through such program exploiting Zeitgeist feminist ideology issues. It says something about the media too…
NOBODY, male or female, (no matter how talented) can gain media attention as easily through their artistic merits as they can through their looks. There was a time when you could make it big without being beautiful, but that time is past.
^ even if they try.
When was this golden time you were referring to? Do you have specific supporting examples? I would like to know more about that. Thank you.
The only example I could think of now is Franz Schubert, who was considered a short fat ugly mushroom (Schwammerl) in his milieu. But the success and fame he was able to obtain in his life time was still relatively humble in comparison to his real artistic merit and what he had created.