Word: ascent
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Harvard's 4-1 defeat of Providence, the East's regular-season champion, was more than just the climax to one of its best-ever ECAC campaigns. It also capped a five-year ascent from two of the most horrendous seasons in Crimson history in 1978-79 and '79-80, to a mediocre finish the next year, to a runner-up playoff finish last year, to Harvard's championship this year...
...Richard, was seeking a conductor for last summer's centennial production of Parsifal at Bayreuth, Levine was his choice. "Jimmy's star is going up," says a member of the Chicago Symphony. "I don't think anything will interrupt the rise." Levine talks about his ascent to prominence with a characteristic mixture of pride and hyperbole. "Every year my life gets better," he says. "It's all sort of like a dream. It's so nice...
...break, and luck was obliging. The San Francisco Opera needed a conductor for the last few Toscas of the season and hired Levine. By chance, a Met administrator heard him, and was impressed. Levine made his Met debut the next year, also with Tosca. His career began a rapid ascent, aided by Levine's manager, Ronald Wilford of Columbia Artists Management Inc. Wilford oversees the livelihoods of many major conductors, including Mstislav Rostropovich of the National Symphony and Seiji Ozawa of the Boston Symphony. "From that first day I watched Jimmy work," says Wilford, "I knew he would have...
Life On Earth (PBS). A tale of wonders, the saga of evolution and the ascent of life, from bacteria to man, lovingly told by British Host David Attenborough...
...Western reformer? Little is known about him, and even less can be surmised from the bare facts of his career. Says Historian James Billington, director of Washington's Woodrow Wilson International Center: "The successor had to rise through the system, and the garb he put on for the ascent is not necessarily the garb he will wear when he is in power...