Reports of indiscipline in the Boston Symphony Orchestra after James Levine’s latest health withdrawal need to be taken very seriously indeed. According to the Boston Herald players were seen giggling and sniggering during Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, under substitute conductor Sean Newhouse. There’s no excuse for that.
Levine’s brother says he may
scale back his Boston involvement in future, but it’s too late for half-measures if the orchestra cannot play a an end-of-life symphony with a straight face. Levine needs to resign now, for the sake of Boston’s reputation.
Reports of indiscipline in the Boston Symphony Orchestra after James Levine’s latest health withdrawal need to be taken very seriously indeed. According to the Boston Herald players were seen giggling and sniggering during Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, under substitute conductor Sean Newhouse. There’s no excuse for that.
Levine’s brother says he may
scale back his Boston involvement in future, but it’s too late for half-measures if the orchestra cannot play a an end-of-life symphony with a straight face. Levine needs to resign now, for the sake of Boston’s reputation.
The composer Jack Gottlieb, who was Leonard Bernstein’s assistant at the New York Philharmonic and later publications director of the Bernstein Office, has died aged 79. He was halfway through a year of his appointment as Leonard Bernstein Scholar in Residence at the New York Philharmonic.
Deatails of his life at his
website.
photo: Brandeis
The composer Jack Gottlieb, who was Leonard Bernstein’s assistant at the New York Philharmonic and later publications director of the Bernstein Office, has died aged 79. He was halfway through a year of his appointment as Leonard Bernstein Scholar in Residence at the New York Philharmonic.
Deatails of his life at his
website.
photo: Brandeis
