James Levine

[calimac]

The once-esteemed conductor died last week. Since most of the obits I've seen concentrate on the greatness of his conducting, I feel the best response is to link to my previous posts about this character.

The case of James Levine.

The case of James Levine cont'd.

Comments

[cmcmck]

They say you should look at the art and not the artist, but there are times I'm willing to make exceptions.

Richard Dadd, my home town artist, was mentally ill and Gesualdo da Venosa's crimes I can understand in the context of their times but not Levine's.

[ranunculus]

James Levine conducted at the SF Opera a lot while I was there. Thankfully I didn't hear too many rumors about him at that time. If I were to be "catty" I would say his conducting career at SF also coinciced with a union-busting attitude by management.