Music may be gender blind, but the music business is not, reports The Dallas Opera’s General Director Keith Cerny in his Theater Jones column, Off the Cuff. According to Cerny, many of the 156 applicants for this year’s Hart Institute for Women Conductors program listed challenges ranging from old-fashioned sex discrimination to more nuanced issues such as balancing careers and motherhood. It isn’t all bad news, though, as many of them predicted emerging opportunities for women taking up the baton.
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In a related article, conductors from last year’s program speak up.