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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. ↗

— James Levine

#comes #conductor #deciding #delusion #factor

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest. ↗

— James Levine

#era #grew #i #like #orchestra

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice. ↗

— James Levine

#i #i think #involve #orchestra #strengths

If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home. ↗

— James Levine

#day #doing #factor #fathers #home

It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge. ↗

— James Levine

#collective #communication #day #emerge #every

It's just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it. ↗

— James Levine

#function #i #involved #just #look

More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad. ↗

— James Levine

#amazed #assume #couples #cultural #dad

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do. ↗

— James Levine

#gestures #orchestra #relationship #will

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others. ↗

— Philip Levine

#find #god #i #live #maybe

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet. ↗

— Philip Levine

#encouraged #i #lucky #me #mother