James Levine
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and then it got progressively easier, but never 100 percent comfortable. I was like: ‘Let me pretend it’s not happening. Just look at James Levine and sing,’
You’re going to hear a bit of an odd sound
I was on my bottom a lot: watching Monday-night football, Tuesday-night basketball, ‘Simpsons’ every nightMore quotes »
Around the web
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After Health Issues, Influential Conductor Back At Met Opera
Host Scott Simon speaks with New York Times classical music critic Anthony Tommasini about conductor James Levine's return to the Metropolitan Opera after a series of health problems kept him away for two years. from NPR Read more »
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Our opinion: Boston Symphony's new director
is an imaginative choice to become the BSO’s 15th director, and only its third in the last 40 years. Mr. Nelsons will succeed James Levine, a hugely respected maestro whose health issues, which caused him to miss many dates at Tanglewood toward the end of from Berkshire Eagle Online Read more »
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Christian Thielemann, Conductor at Wagner’s Bicentennial
scale. The score is marked “sehr langsam” — very slow — and conductors tend to oblige. Some, from Wilhelm Furtwängler to James Levine, have lingered over the first three notes in particular, as if dropping a pebble into a pond and waiting for the ripples to from The New York Times Read more »
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Heir presumptive?
Nelsons has been named the new music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, i.e., James Levine‘s old gig. Might Nelsons possibly be also in line for the top musical job at the Met? [New York Times] It then seems likely that Mrs. Nelsons will be spending from parterre box presents La Cieca Read more »
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Susan Orlean: The power of walking while working.
for desk use, without handrails and equipped with motors that are designed to run for long hours at slow speeds. James Levine made his first treadmill desk, in 1999, from one of those tray tables with a telescoping base made to fit over an elevated hospital from The New Yorker Read more »
