A report Saturday (11/3) on the National Public Radio website states, “This past week has been filled with some truly tragic stories of loss and devastation in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. There are also a few stories of near misses and disasters averted. Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, fortunately has one of the latter. Before the storm hit, Alsop had gone to California, where she is leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic this weekend; she realized that she would probably get trapped by Sandy on the wrong coast. During the storm, an enormous tree came down on the roof of her studio. ‘Luckily, no one was there,’ she says. … ‘It could have been much worse. I feel for people who had much worse happen to them.’ … Among Alsop’s scores that were damaged were the ones laying out on her desk: the pieces she’s conducting next month and right after the beginning of the New Year—like Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7, ‘Leningrad’ and Prokofiev’s Fourth Symphony—but she thinks even those will be salvageable. And when she turns to them, now they’ll tell their own story of having survived Hurricane Sandy.”
Posted November 6, 2012
