In Your Face Piccolo! Take That Timpani!

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra yesterday named Marin Alsop to be its new music director beginning with the 2007-2008 season despite howls of protest by the orchestra musicians. Ninety percent of the orchestra wanted the search for a new conductor to continue complaining that BSO president, James Glicker, and the symphony Board of Directors had not adequately involved the musicians in the search process.

Glicker introduced Alsop to the musicians and the media at a news conference at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore. "The Baltimore Symphony Board of Directors takes pride in appointing Marin Alsop to be its new music director, the first woman to be named music director of a major American orchestra."

When a reporter asked Glicker about the tension existing between the musicians and orchestra administration, Glicker replied "Hey, if the musicians don't like the appointment made by the Board and me, they can go fuck themselves."

Later in the day, Jane Marvine, head of the BSO players committee, suggested that relations between the orchestra and the orchestra administration had reached a new low stating for the record that "Glicker could suck the orchestra's big, fat, collective dick."

Alsop acknowledged that she had "a little fence-mending to do" and promised to bring brownies and Skittles to every rehearsal.
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