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Article: WHY LEVINE SAID YES `I NEEDED TO KNOW THEY WANTED ME TO DO IT MY WAY, AND THEY DID.' BSO JOB FULFILLS LEVINE'S DREAM
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 30, 2001
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James Levine, cutting to the chase, addressed the problems of the
American orchestra world yesterday in the Symphony Hall press
conference that marked his debut as the Boston Symphony Orchestra's
music director designate.
"The repertoire is getting bigger and the rehearsal periods are
getting shorter, and sooner or later we are going to have to pay the
bill for that artistically," Levine said. "There is no point in doing
things a certain way simply because that is the way they have been
done before."
Levine doesn't just want orchestras to survive in a hostile world
but to flourish, and for him, that means to work toward a "flow of
improvement" and the "inspirational" artistic results ...
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Article: BSO, LEVINE MOVE CLOSER; ISSUES REMAIN
The Boston Globe;
August 1, 2001 ;
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... ... He wouldn't directly name Levine, currently the artistic director ... 2004 at the earliest. When Levine was in town in March, he told ... ongoing," BSO managing director Mark Volpe said this week, "but it is ... rehearsal to performance, and Levine's health. Any one of these ...
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