MUSIClassical ALLEGRO
Now Playing: New York Times and other papers fail to recognize Buffalo Philharmonic as "major American orchestra"
Topic: NEWS performers
Like Beethoven’s Ninth, it began as a soft hum. A buzz, almost. Then, crescendo! Now it’s loud, the local flap over the national media blitz surrounding Marin Alsop’s appointment as music director of the Baltimore Symphony. A big story Monday in the New York Times trumpeted that Alsop was “the first woman to lead a major American orchestra.” What about JoAnn Falletta? Buffalonians want answers. In 1998, Falletta made news when she was named music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. At the time, the Associated Press said she was the first woman to take the helm of a world-class orchestra. 
