{"id":21181,"date":"2021-03-19T10:26:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T17:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=21181"},"modified":"2021-03-19T10:26:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T17:26:13","slug":"the-only-james-levine-post-you-need-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2021\/03\/19\/the-only-james-levine-post-you-need-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"the only james levine post you need to read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Conductor and cellist Kenneth Woods wrote a retrospective<\/a> on James Levine that does not mince words – the tl:dr is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Levine was not a great man with a single tragic flaw. He was an almost completely horrible person, with a single, tragic talent.<\/p>Kenneth Woods<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Bravo to him for writing this, and a hat tip to Elaine Fine for alerting me to this with her blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Conductor and cellist Kenneth Woods wrote a retrospective on James Levine that does not mince words – the tl:dr is: James Levine was not a great man with a single tragic flaw. He was an almost completely horrible person, with a single, tragic talent. Kenneth Woods Bravo to him for writing this, and a hat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[225,299,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers","category-conducting","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-5vD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1532,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/11\/carter-barenboim-levine-on-charlie-rose\/","url_meta":{"origin":21181,"position":0},"title":"carter, barenboim & levine on charlie rose(!)","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to Matthew Guerrieri for finding this...","rel":"","context":"In "chamber music"","block_context":{"text":"chamber music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/chamber-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4271,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/26\/oso-music-director-to-conduct-bso\/","url_meta":{"origin":21181,"position":1},"title":"OSO music director to conduct BSO","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"David Stabler reports that Carlos Kalmar has been asked to fill in for James Levine with the Boston Symphony in early April. 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