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James Levine [1943-0] American

Rank: 104
Musician, Conductor

James Lawrence Levine is an American conductor and pianist. He is primarily known for his tenure as Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera, a position he held for 40 years.

Dad, Amazing, Change, Communication, Dating, Home, Mom, Relationship, Teacher, Work

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It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.	Dating, Relationship	101
I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.	Teacher	102
It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.	Communication	103
The invisible dilemma is that men face the very real problem that they don't feel comfortable bringing these issues up and they tend not to be acknowledged at work.		104
More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.	Amazing, Dad, Home, Mom	105
A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.	Change	106
Women tend to have recognition and peer group support - recognition from friends and family that this has to be a big issue in their lives. They're more comfortable expressing the need for support and receiving it.		107
Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.		108
I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.		109
Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.		110
Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.	Work	111
It's just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.		112
We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do.		113
But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.		114
Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.		115
Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.	Dad	116
Art has never been a popularity contest.		117
I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.		118
Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.		119
When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before.		120
I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always.		121
At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.		122
If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home.		123
So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers.		124
And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.		125
Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.		126
We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.		201
It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that.		202
And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth.		203
You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another.		204
I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.		205
There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.		206
As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.		207
What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent.		208
My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home.		209
I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight.		210
They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home.		211
We do not seem to be finding tomorrow's Toscas.		212

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