Word: metropolitanism
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...stride. Boston Bureau Chief Barry Hillenbrand was lunching in "your above-average greasy spoon" in Boston's Back Bay when he learned by phone that he had been assigned to report a cover story on James Levine, the internationally acclaimed music director of New York City's Metropolitan Opera. Levine was 4,000 miles away in Austria conducting at the Salzburg festival. Could Hillenbrand, who had reported major TIME stories on such subjects as Gelsey Kirkland and Bobby Fischer, leave immediately? He departed the next day, only to confront another element of the unexpected when he landed. "Arriving...
...newspaper war in Detroit may be the nation's hardest fought, and it is almost certainly the costliest. Detroit is the nation's fifth largest metropolitan area (pop. 4.4 million); its News and Free Press are the ninth and tenth largest U.S. dailies. The owners of the morning Free Press (circ. 632,000) acknowledge that the paper lost $9 million last year. They assert that the all-day competitor, the News (circ. 643,000), lost twice that much in 1982, even though it has a solid 60%-to-40% lead in advertising linage, largely because the News offers...
...since Bernstein has an American-born, American-trained conductor had such an astonishing career. As music director and principal conductor of New York City's Metropolitan Opera, one of the world's top opera companies, Levine wields an international influence. During the summers, when he is not working at the Met, he leads the Chicago Symphony as music director of the Ravinia Festival. He is in demand as a guest conductor, and such is his reputation that whenever a major vacancy in the conductorial ranks occurs, Levine's name (it rhymes with divine) is invariably mentioned...
...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. One is President of the U.S., and the other is director of the Metropolitan Opera...
...fact they, more than the gilt and the grandeur, sum up the job and the personality of the man who holds it. Anthony Bliss is indeed the Big Tone, the general manager, ultimate authority on everything that occurs at the Metropolitan Opera. And he is also totally committed to his company, so oblivious to almost everything else that he probably could, as his wife once jokingly observed, dine on Alpo dog food and not know the difference...