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
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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.
Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.
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.
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.
Art has never been a popularity contest.
Fate is a misplaced retreat. Many people rationalize an unexplained event as fate and shrug their shoulders when it occurs. But that is not what fate is. The world operates as a series of circles that are invisible, for they extend to the upper air. Fate is where these circles cut to earth. Since we cannot see them, do not know their content, and have no sense of their width, it is impossible to predict when these cuts will slice into our reality. When this happens, we call it fate. Fate is not a chance event but one that is inevitable, we are simply blind to its nature and time.
We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.
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.