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James Levine, Former Metropolitan Opera Music Director, Dead At Age 77 : NPR


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James Levine conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2007.
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James Levine, the immensely accomplished conductor who wielded power and influence in the classical world, and whose singular tenure at the Metropolitan Opera ended in a flurry of accusations of sexual abuse, died on March 9 in Palm Springs, Calif. His physician of 17 years, Dr. Len Horovitz, confirmed his death to NPR, saying that Levine died of natural causes. He was 77 years old.
Over four and a half decades, Levine shaped the sound and reputation of New York s storied Metropolitan Opera, the largest performing arts organization in the country, through his conducting, coaching of singers and choristers and fine-tuning the pit musicians into one of the world s great orchestras. Levine led more than 2,500 performances at the opera house, beginning in 1971, when he made his debut, until h ....

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