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Levine’s tenure as music director was greeted this year with a large amount of buzz in classical music circles. A renowned conductor and pianist, Levine is credited with bringing the Metropolitan Opera (which he still conducts) to new heights. Critics worldwide predict that he will live up to his reputation and raise the caliber of the BSO as well...
...total, the University generates more than $3.4 billion annually for the metropolitan area, the study found...
...just that men aren't opening car doors for women or offering them seats on subways or buses. It goes deeper than that. The high crime rate is one thing that discourages openness and courtesy to strangers" ... Fran Lebowitz, who made her mark as a caustic social critic with Metropolitan Life (1978), also feels that things are getting worse rather than better. "I don't think people have manners," she says. "I don't think people teach their children manners. I think boorishness is the order of the day. There has been a return to convention, but that...
DIED. ROBERT MERRILL, 87, powerful baritone who was a favorite at the Metropolitan Opera; in New York City. In his 30 years at the Met, he was regarded as one of the greatest Verdi baritones of his generation, singing the title role in Rigoletto many times. Unlike other opera singers of his era, Merrill never avoided the mainstream. He made many recordings, including one of the national anthem that was used for years to open games at Yankee Stadium...
Street Creds: Joined Corning in 1962; member of board of directors of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and Exxon Mobil Corporation; trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pierpont Morgan Library and the Corning Museum of Glass...