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Gilbert Levine
American conductor
Sir[1] Gilbert Levine, GCSG (born January 22, 1948) is an American conductor. He is considered an "outstanding personality in the world of international music television."[2] He has led the PBS concert debuts of the Staatskapelle Dresden, Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, WDR Symphony Orchestra, and the Pittsburgh Symphony, and the PBS premieres of works including the BeethovenMissa Solemnis, BachMagnificat in D, HaydnCreation, and BrucknerSymphony 9.[3]
Education
[edit]Levine was born in Brooklyn, New York, attended the Juilliard School of Music, and holds an A.B. degree from Princeton University and a M.A. degree from Yale University. He studied bassoon with Stephen Maxym and Sherman Walt, piano with Gilbert Kalish, Music History with Lewis Lockwood and Arthur Mendel, Music Theory with Edward T. Cone, Peter Westergaard and Milton Babbitt, ear training and score reading with Nadia Boulanger, Renée Longy, and Luise Vosgerchian, and conducting with Jacques-Louis Monod and Franco Ferrara.
Levine was assistant to Sir Georg Solti in London at the London Philharmonic Orchestra and at the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), and in Paris with l'Orchestre de Paris. He was a prot
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Paradise in music: a glorious Verdi Requiem under Michele Mariotti in Dublin
The thundering Dies irae of Verdi's Requiem has been used incongruously in Dublin as the soundtrack for a video touting a haunted-house bus tour of the city. This misappropriation can perhaps be forgiven following the staging of not one but two performances of Verdi's transformative work in Dublin within two months. I missed the first occasion in April, but the performance by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and the RTÉ Philharmonic Choir under the baton of Italian maestro Michele Mariotti at the National Concert Hall was a splendid affair. Not only were the orchestra and chorus in peak form, but it was apparent that someone had gone to a lot of trouble to assemble a sterling foursome of soloists. American soprano Angela Meade was joined by mezzo-soprano Enkelejda Shkosa, a regular on European opera stages. Italian tenor Antonio Poli and Russian bass Evgeny Stavinsky made up the male ranks.
It is well known that the final Libera me section of the Requiem began life as part of a failed collective effort by Italian composers to honour Rossini. Verdi resurrected it for his later Requiem, written to commemorate the death of Alessandro Manzoni, whom Verdi and the Italian public re
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Opera Today
October 31, 2013
Wexford Celebration 2013
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