Orchestra Iowa has named Dawn Gingrich as its new concertmaster, a welcome addition to our growing list.
Dawn is a well-travelled soloist. Her father, Daniel, isĀ associate principal French horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
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You mean “female?” You wouldn’t
say “man” concertmaster.
Saying “woman” this and “woman” that is offensive and degrading toward women because it works under the assumption that concertmaster is a “man’s” job. There are many female concertmasters in the United States.
The longer you keep talking like this as if it’s some freak occurrence, the longer people will expect that only men should be able to serve in leadership positions in orchestras.
oh dear oh dear how utterly and totally predictable.
I am tempted to post ‘shut the f### up’ in the words of Sir Simon Rattle when addressing ( mid concert) a percussion player who was totally ‘out of order’!
I agree competely with MJ on this point. Will, on the other hand…. Your reply to MJ’s perfectly reasonable comment (agree or disagree, if you’d like) is plain rude. “Shut up” (in essence) is all you can offer?
Norman:
I can name at least three other orchestras in the immediate area: the Quad City Symphony (Davenport, IA), Dubuque (IA) Symphony, and the Madison (WI) Symphony, all of which have female concertmasters (and have for many years). Why the big deal about the Cedar Rapids orchestra?
This is a tiny amateur orchestra no one ever heard of outside its immediate 10 block area.
Hello “Kurt Masur”!
Talk about tiny…. Your comment is as small as they get. Completely unhelpful and doesn’t reflect on you particularly well. No, Orchestra Iowa is not the NY Phil, but it is something to know about. Please read….
http://www.artsiowa.com/orchestra/
This is Orchestra Iowa….
http://youtu.be/1KYhsprH350
Orchestra Iowa is a professional orchestra, and an excellent one at that.
And back in the 1980s the Waukegan Symphony (in Illinois, not so far away from IA and WI) had a female concertmaster, Marilyn Schoenfeld. We’ve always been on the cutting edge of Societal Evolution here in the Midwest! š
And back in the 1960s, the Bronx Symphony Orchestra had a transgender Concertmaster/mistress…we’ve got you all beat here in the Bronx!