Tag: James Levine
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Monday Link Round Up: March 22, 2021
News and music to start your week! Congratulations continue to pour in for Ethel Smyth’s first-ever Grammy, thanks to the recording by James Blachly and The Experiential Orchestra! This crowdfunded CD, which WPA was proud to help support, has been praised since its release, and this award further reinforces not only this work, but the…
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Monday Link Round Up: April 18, 2016
Some news to start your week! The big news this weekend was that James Levine is stepping down from the Met. Anne Midgette talks about why a new conductor is long overdue – and WQXR speculates on who will fill the role. (Spoiler: no one is being on a woman taking the baton.) Composer Kate…
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Artistic Vision at the Boston Symphony Orchestra??
Jeremy Eichler (music critic at the Boston Globe) has recently worried that James Levine is not providing the BSO with strong leadership, while “Across the country orchestras are updating their approaches to programming with the goal of engaging listeners – current and potential – more broadly, deeply, and imaginatively.” I attempted to engage the artistic…