Alsop, Marin, 1956-, American conductor, b. New York City. The daughter of professional musicians, she began playing the piano at two and the violin at five. Alsop started conducting studies with Carl Bamberger in 1979 and also studied with Harold Farberman, Leonard Bernstein, and Seiji Ozawa. She founded the Concordia Orchestra in 1984 and accepted her first formal conducting position with the Richmond Symphony in 1988. From 1989 to 1995 she was music director of the Eugene (Oreg.) Symphony and the Long Island Philharmonic and from 1993 to 2003 she led Denver's Colorado Symphony. A guest conductor of many leading orchestras in the United States and Europe, Alsop was principal conductor (2002-8) of England's Bournemouth Symphony and the first conductor to be awarded (2005) a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." In 2007 she became the first woman to lead a major American symphony when she assumed the music directorship of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Extremely popular, she has reinvigorated the orchestra. Throughout her career, she has shown particular interest in Romantic, contemporary, and American music.

Marin, John, 1870-1953, American landscape painter, b. Rutherford, N.J. After a year at Stevens Institute of Technology, he worked for four years as an architectural draftsman. At 28 he entered the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and in 1905 went abroad, where he painted and etched and lived precariously for several years. In 1909 his work was exhibited at Stieglitz's gallery in New York City. He was quickly recognized as a leading American watercolorist. Marin painted scenes of New York, Taos, and particularly Maine seascapes, which he rendered with a few powerful zigzag strokes, often employing angular abstract forms to enclose the composition. His color ranged from subtle, delicate tones to bold, eerie effects. Marin's work in oil and watercolor is in more than 40 public collections in the United States.

(born Dec. 23, 1870, Rutherford, N.J., U.S.—died Oct. 1, 1953, Cape Split, Maine) U.S. painter and printmaker. He worked as an architectural draftsman before studying painting. After exposure to Cubism and German Expressionism, he developed a personal form of expressionism, consisting of semiabstract images based on objective reality. While watercolour usually produces delicate, transparent effects, Marin's command of the medium allowed him to use it to render the monumental power of New York City and the relentless surge of the sea.

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(born Dec. 23, 1870, Rutherford, N.J., U.S.—died Oct. 1, 1953, Cape Split, Maine) U.S. painter and printmaker. He worked as an architectural draftsman before studying painting. After exposure to Cubism and German Expressionism, he developed a personal form of expressionism, consisting of semiabstract images based on objective reality. While watercolour usually produces delicate, transparent effects, Marin's command of the medium allowed him to use it to render the monumental power of New York City and the relentless surge of the sea.

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Marin or Marín can refer to:

Places

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• Marin, Haute-Savoie, a commune

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• Marín, Nuevo León, a town and municipality

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• Marin, Sălaj

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• Marín, Pontevedra, a municipality in Galicia

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• Marin-Epagnier, in Neuchâtel
• Marin, a village in Marin-Epagnier

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• Marin County, California
• Marin City, California
• The Marin Headlands, California

People

• Saint Marinus, the founder of San Marino
• Marin Držić, Croatian Renaissance playwright and prose writer
• Marin Mersenne (1588-1648), French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist
• Marin Hinkle, actress
• Marin is an alias of Japanese DJ Yoshinori Sunahara

Other

• Marin (wind) is a type of wind in France
• Marin (bicycles) is a bicycle manufacturer based in the U.S. state of California
• Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN), an oceanographic institute

See also

• Marina
• Marine
• Marini
• Marino