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MAESTRO NORTH.(music conductors)

The New Yorker

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James Levine is a happy man. Or so it seemed when I talked to him earlier this month, in his office at Symphony Hall in Boston. The man who leads the two most venerable institutions in American music--the Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony--looked to be in good health. He spoke in rapid, enthusiastic, circuitous paragraphs, his eyes lighting up whenever he touched on a favorite score. Having just finished rehearsals for Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony and Elliott Carter's "Symphonia," he was full of thoughts about how Beethoven was really the first contemporary composer and how Carter is really an old master. He was fine-tuning programs for the following season, ...

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