Helene

Marin Alsop said in an interview this summer, when she became the first woman to close the BBC Proms, that her parents encouraged her to become a conductor as soon as she expressed interest in it, and her father especially told her to not limit her expectations because she was female.

http://www.reporternews.com/news/2014/feb/10/around-town-2102014/

(Keith) Lamar Alsop, the longtime NYCB Orchestra concertmaster, has died at age 85. His wife, Ruth, who played for the NYCB Orchestra for over half a century, died 10 days ago. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/arts/music/k-lamar-alsop-violinist-and-ballet-concertmaster-dies-at-85.html Rest in peace, Mr. and Mrs. Alsop, and deepest sympathy to daughter Marin Alsop and the rest of their family.

Unless the roles are switched around -- Ringer spoke in a recent interview about Robbins having a ballerina do a solo that normally wasn't done by her "color" -- the Girl in Green doesn't come on until pretty late in the ballet.

I didn't see it, but I heard it on Sirius recently. I don't love Fleming's take on the role, but I was glad to hear Relyea in good voice. He'd be having trouble over the past couple of years.