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

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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