The most powerful women in US music

We gave you a British power list a while back.

Here’s the Slipped Disc US powerlist. (Deutschland next?)

Top 20

1 Deborah Borda
NY Phil Prez

2 Betsy DeVos
Trump’s Education Secretary, former powerplayer at KenCen

3 Deborah Rutter
Kennedy Center chief

4 Missy Mazzoli
The go-to composer

5 Renee Fleming
Singer, consultant, tipped as next Met chief

6 Marin Alsop
Baltimore conductor

7 Marilyn Horne
Everybody’s favourite auntie/advisor

8 Jane Moss
Lincoln Center programmer

9 Deborah Spar
ex-Lincoln Center chief, exGoldman Sachs. She’ll be back

10 Karina Canellakis
The coming conductor

11 Francesca Zambello
Glimmerglass and Washington National Opera, one eye on the Met

12 Anne Parsons
Detroit Symph chief

13 Anne Midgette
WashPo critic, #MeToo traliblazer

14 Kim Noltemy
Dallas Symph boss

15 Elizabeth Sobol
Saratoga Performing Arts Center chief

16 Afa Sadykhly Dworkin
Sphinx org equality campaigner

17 Jessica Phillips
Musicians’ rep at the Met

18 Charlotte Lee
Exclusive boutique agent, looks after Itzhak and a few more

19 Joyce DiDonato
Ultima mezzo

20 Hilary Hahn
#1 soloist