Comments on: Silence, Breaking

By: Shush Money • VAN Magazine

Shush Money • VAN Magazine — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 13:48:11 +0000

[…] December, James Levine was fired from his emeritus music directorship at the Metropolitan Opera, after five men stepped […]

By: Disregard All Information • VAN Magazine

Disregard All Information • VAN Magazine — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 13:16:08 +0000

[…] week, in the wake of both the Atlanta spa shootings and the belated announcement of the death of James Levine. Wu changed her Twitter name to Metropolitan Opera, donned the guise of the company’s bio and […]

By: Title Change • VAN Magazine

Title Change • VAN Magazine — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:17:44 +0000

[…] Met’s (now late) music director James Levine, leading to a flood of revelations that confirmed longtime rumors. In the spring of 2020, with COVID ravaging New York and the world, Gelb suspended paychecks for […]

By: A Beautiful Serialism Playlist • VAN Magazine

A Beautiful Serialism Playlist • VAN Magazine — Thu, 12 May 2022 09:12:47 +0000

[…] to a concert at the very beginning of James Levine’s tenure at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. (Yes, I know.) On the program were Beethoven and Schoenberg’s Violin Concertos, performed by Christian […]

By: Talking to Ghosts • VAN Magazine

Talking to Ghosts • VAN Magazine — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 14:00:30 +0000

[…] This can be an important job, especially in circumstances where concepts like “genius” are still all-too-often used to excuse or minimize abusive behavior by those with power in both academia and the music industry. But I’m also interested in how […]

By: 33 Variations on Vladimir Jurowski • VAN Magazine

33 Variations on Vladimir Jurowski • VAN Magazine — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 18:03:07 +0000

[…] be a herd of cows (John Eliot Gardiner). It could be abuse allegations and impending lawsuits (James Levine, Charles Dutoit). Or it might be the privilege of hip surgery on the North Italian coast (Riccardo […]