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Aspen Music Festival music director Robert Spano is taking a seat on the piano bench for a virtual performance with violinist Robert McDuffie on Thursday night, closing the Music Fest’s winter series.
The pair are frequent musical partners and frequent collaborators, both in Aspen where McDuffie is an alum and an annual presence at the summer festival and in Georgia, where Spano also serves as music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and McDuffie founded the trailblazing Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer College.
The pair recorded Thursday’s performance, featuring Brahms’ first violin sonata and Beethoven’s seventh violin sonata, on campus at Mercer.
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James Levine, who ruled four decades over Metropolitan Opera, dead at 77
Levine became one of the signature artists in the companyâs century-plus history. He was eased aside for health reasons and later fired for sexual improprieties.
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James Levine conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in July 2006. Levine died March 9 in Palm Springs, Calif., of natural causes, his physician said. [ MICHAEL DWYER ]
Updated Mar. 17
NEW YORK â Conductor James Levine, who ruled over the Metropolitan Opera for more than four decades before being eased aside when his health declined and then was fired for sexual improprieties, has died. He was 77.
Levine died March 9 in Palm Springs, Calif., of natural causes, his physician of 17 years, Dr. Len Horovitz, said Wednesday.
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FILE: James Levine conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra on its opening night performance at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass. on July 7, 2006. Levine, who ruled over the Metropolitan Opera for 4 1/2 decades before being eased out when his health declined and then fired for sexual improprieties, died March 9, 2021 in Palm Springs, Calif., of natural causes, his physician of 17 years, Dr. Len Horovitz, said Wednesday, March 17. He was 77. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
NEW YORK (AP) Conductor James Levine, who ruled over the Metropolitan Opera for more than four decades before being eased aside when his health declined and then was fired for sexual improprieties, has died. He was 77.