James Levine
James Levine
James Lawrence Levineis an American conductor and pianist. He is primarily known for his tenure as Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera, a position he held for 40 years. He has made numerous recordings, as well as television and radio broadcasts, with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Levine has also held leadership positions with the Ravinia Festival, the Munich Philharmonic, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 1980, he started the Lindemann Young Artists Development Program and often works to train promising...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth23 June 1943
CityCincinnati, OH
CountryUnited States of America
I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.
As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.
At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.
Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.
There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.
Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.
It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.
I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment
It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that
My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home
I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight
Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.
Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.
What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent.