Word: cincinnatis
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...Cincinnati...
Afterward the orchestra musicians presented him with an ornate scroll with all their signatures as a gesture of respect and affection. "Heavenly thanks for the good musical collaboration," it reads. "So nice," said the kid from Cincinnati who had grown up to sound the grand Amen. "That's marvelous. Fantastic. Wonderful...
Most of Levine's life has been spent counting successes. Born in Cincinnati, a city with a rich musical heritage, young Jimmy Levine could pull himself up to the family Chickering piano and pick out tunes before he was two years old. When little more than an infant, he once astonished his father, a former bandleader, by spotting the rhythm of Mary Had a Little Lamb when it was idly drummed on a tabletop. Piano lessons came at four, recitals at six. In 1953, age ten, he made his debut with the Cincinnati Symphony, performing Mendelssohn's Piano...
...Jimmy would listen to recordings, singing the parts and conducting from the score. His mother, who had been a Broadway actress, bought him a 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...
...recommendation of the dean of the Juilliard School in New York, where they had taken their ten-year-old son for an evaluation, the Levines in 1953 asked Walter Levin, principal violinist of the LaSalle Quartet, to supervise their son's musical education in Cincinnati...