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
You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another.
People are turning away from the more formal, traditionally posed wedding photos to a more intimate and natural approach,
The more I work on his pieces, I find that their fundamental life energy is irresistible, and it increases. It's such marvelous music, with such personality, thought and care and detail. We have a number of very marvelous composers, but to see Elliott at this age so enthusiastic, wanting to do it and being able to do it, is amazing.
I'd rather they come an hour before and read the program notes, so that they have some slight introduction to what they're going to hear. Then I recommend the most important thing of all. Listen, don't fight.
And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth.
Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.
At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.
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.
Art has never been a popularity contest.
I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight
My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home
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
I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment
It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.