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...mean that the legal issue was closed. "In an appropriate case, he added, "we will not hesitate to again ask the Supreme Court to rule on this question, which is so important to millions of citizens." The Administration is currently trying to dismantle busing plans in East Baton Rouge, La., Charleston, S.C., Yonkers, N.Y. and Chicago...
...conductor. At 205 Ibs. and standing less than 5 ft. 10 in., he is built more like a stagehand than an aristocratic maestro, and his round face, capped by a corona of curly hair, is a world away from the suave image of a Leonard Bernstein. Yet as his baton comes slashing down with swift, chopping strokes, he is abruptly transformed into a figure of grace. Cuing the orchestra, effortlessly guiding singers through an opera's trickiest passages, joyfully but inaudibly singing along, he has become Priestley's ideal personified. And why not? James Levine, 39, is doing...
When things go well, Levine signals his pleasure with a warm, broad smile; indeed, when conducting he communicates almost as much by facial expressions and eye contact as he does with his baton. He wants the musicians to watch him carefully, and he rarely lets them out of his sight. "He will often say to us, 'Give me some eyes, give me some eyes,' " says Gniewek. Singers get the same treatment. Says Baritone Sherrill Milnes: "If you are singing of love, you look down and his face is reading love." Yet Levine tries not to get so caught...
...relaxed, reassuring attitude persists when Levine puts down his baton and attends to the details of running the Met in association with General Manager Anthony A. Bliss. This season, the Met will offer 210 performances of 23 operas during its 30-week season at New York City's Lincoln Center, as well as the 56 performances it presents while on tour in the spring. Notes Kurt Herbert Adler, who was general director of the San Francisco Opera for 28 years until his retirement a year ago: "There are two jobs in this country that are impossible to fill...
...miniature stage, where he put on his own productions using toy tables and chairs as props. During the summers, he attended the performances of the Cincinnati Opera, held then on the grounds of the local zoo, clutching his grandmother's long knitting needle as a make-believe baton...