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.

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[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.