James Levine - 60 Minutes - March 8, 2015

[@cherwynambuter7873]

I'm utterly heartbroken by the news about Levine...Just crushed. He's always been one of my greatest heroes...Nearly immortal...So exalted in his giftings. But these young men deserved better than the treatment they received. I weep for them. I weep for him, that he has done this to himself and that the Met board played along and allowed it to continue. The world will never forget the beauty he brought to us, but now it will be coupled with this. Let's all be thankful our ears were able to experience the great and surpassing glories of the music, and pray that all abuse and harassment will be cleaned out leaving the classical music industry intact and able to recover to have a bright future.

[@marknulman6521]

Ji

[@NYCOPERAFAN]

Wasn't news to anyone who worked in the classical music field, media etc. - was ruthlessly suppressed for close to 5 decades, by the Met, his agent Ron Wilford and "consigliere" mobster style brother Tom Levine.

[@dekecumberland6349]

His fans are still active and deny all wrongdoing.

[@samueljaramillo4508]

De hecho, era muy repulsivo.

[@brixtonroger3742]

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[@sellaholding9205]

April 2016...... Wonderful video! It's nice to see Canada represented in the Opera world . Thank You for posting!

[@jacktaggart2489]

Many wonderful memories of brilliant performances at the MET under the baton of Maestro Levine. May he rest in peace, after all.

[@snoopcat5745]

Fat chance

[@uppityglivestockian]

Indeed. 21Jul7_2 He was a genius, and such humans are no less flawed than the rest of us. Speaking ill of the dead, who cannot defend themselves, is rarely advised, for one day it’ll be one of us, and our families will still be alive and able to hear and see the hurtful gossiping based on zero actual evidence. Paz y salud.

[@samueljaramillo4221]

A musical genius. Loved by singers, musicians, and the audience alike. He brought the Met to its greatness while he was at its helm. He was not without personal problems. With his sexual indiscretions which the Met knew about for years. His accusers were not children, but were young adults. Gelb used him as a cash cow till he could no longer. He was tossed out of the Met like some old rag to the disgust of his friends and fans. I don’t condone what he did in his personal life but also disapprove of how he was treated by Gelb. Those that judge him, look deep in your closet for those skeletons you don’t want anyone to see. May Maestro Levine Rest In Peace.

[@NYCOPERAFAN]

The Met had plenty of greatness before he arrived (in fact was much greater in the early twentieth century). In fact Gelb only finally carried out what should have occurred at least 4 decades previously.

[@simonboccanegra3811]

@@NYCOPERAFAN I suspect Levine's posthumous reputation will sink like a stone, with Wilford many years in the grave and the CAMI hype machine no longer propping him up. But you're quite right about the Met's history. Unfortunately, some have swallowed the myth and apparently believe the Met had struggled along as a second-rate provincial opera house for 88 years, before the blessed one arrived.

[@dekecumberland6349]

It's remarkable how twisted his fans are: Levine was great, he never did anything wrong and it's all the fault of everybody else.

[@Leviticus-]

The Bible tells us what was wrong with Levine.

[@samueljaramillo4221]

@@dekecumberland6349 Who are you to judge? The Bible? How many skeletons in your closet?

[@rabizvievedh]

rest in peace graet maestro

[@manchitas3531]

Gelb and The Met covered up his abuse while they could use him. When he became useless and hard to follow by the orchestra but refused to leave, all of a sudden Gelb wanted justice for the abused boys.

[@randysills4418]

Gelb has been very detrimental to The Met!

[@vietrus7815]

We miss you Jim!❤️

[@dr2549]

What a sad New-York tale: We see here two men glittering on the top of the world, not long before meeting their separate destinies: the suave interviewer crashed to death in a Manhattan car accident, the interviewee crashed to oblivion and shame by his own conduct (no pan intended).

[@ci7446]

6:40 "di-di-da da-ta ra-ta ra-ta di-di-da da-ta ra-ta ra-ta dee ....there we are!" LOL

[@АлекпероваОльга]

Мир несправедлив!А Ливайн достоин большего уважения!!!

[@LeChevalierDuFeu]

I have his early Mahler 4th on Vinyl. It is sad that his Mahler recordings are mostly digital. The merry wives of windsor are really a pleasure. i always have to cry when i hear Otellos death.

[@sabinewussow2998]

Bitte Melden, schauen Sie auf Ihren Kanal. Gruß Sabine

[@mirandac8712]

I guess what I don't understand is why, if an American TV show is going to devote so much time and attention to someone like Levine, why they don't at least explore music a little bit to tell the television audience or at least give it a hint of why the subject can be so fascinating.

[@Twentythousandlps]

The mass market of 60 Minutes dislikes classical music when it doesn't hate it.

[@ttzx99]

can anyone tell me the name of the music at 2:15 ?...

[@keithclifton392]

The Intermezzo from Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, used in many films!

[@levieuxpiano]

Grand chef, qui nous a offert son art pendant 40 ans et maintenant sa vie.

[@dekecumberland6349]

En effet, et il a également réussi à maltraiter un grand nombre de mineurs pendant toutes ces années.

[@mashakoshka2687]

we can't describe this icon ...

[@dashriprock8596]

Sacred Atheist ...you are a sick piece of shit

[@samueljaramillo4221]

@@dashriprock8596 And what are you ? A pile of.......

[@dekecumberland6349]

@@samueljaramillo4221 Really, man: there's no benefit in defending child molesters.

[@samueljaramillo4221]

@@dekecumberland6349 I don’t condone what he did, but you obviously don’t know the whole story. They were not children,they were young adults that also should have known better. And as adults saw a way to make money and destroy him.

[@simonboccanegra3811]

I think it's safe to say no one made money off of discussing past experiences with Levine. The only lawsuit as a consequence of all this was the one *he* filed when he was dismissed. The New York Post isn't the seemliest American newspaper, but it isn't the Enquirer or the Star, paying people for celebrity tattle. They'd be lucky if they got a lunch bought for them. And at least some of his accusers went on to successful careers. One of them became a bass player in the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra for decades, as well as a professor.

[@cimbassovr]

JIMMY LEVINE!!!!UN COLOSSO DELLA MUSICA!!!L 'UNICO CHE SUONAVA G.VERDI ACCORDANDO L ORCHESTRA SUL "LA VERDIANO".

[@batemapa]

Anyone know what song he is conducting at 2:57?

[@ci7446]

that is from Act 4 of Giuseppe Verdi's Aida

[@ci7446]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKPMlZeteLBshpI check the ending

[@Hotspur77]

A sad time for the arts. Levine is probably the greatest living American conductor. I hope we can show restraint while due process takes its course, and that we give both the accusers and the accused a chance to be heard.

[@4lebenbaum]

What a sad end to the career and reputation of a great musician and conductor!

[@TheCarnivalguy]

Levine will never conduct at the Met again, and likely will never conduct anywhere else.

[@JohnPeterPressonProtopsaltis]

It’s probably a good thing that letches like Mozart didn’t live in the era of #MeToo.

[@markcombrinck-hertz3649]

mark vey good

[@bm4114]

Levine himself is a bit of a Falstaff.

[@TimothyJonSarris]

Don't forget the Italian baritone Nicola Alaimo in the title role👏👏👏👏

[@santiagorodriguez3330]

how sad that it has gone from Lhevines genius to the lows of his succesor

[@irenavisockiene3735]

Labai patinka D. Lavine!

[@mattja312]

Uh-oh, it appears that maestro Levine's unseemly pursuit of supple batons has tarnished his icon status somewhat, eh?

[@i.est.del2991]

He was a predatory man apparently attracted to young men of High School age. It’s tragic how truly gifted individuals also tend to be massively flawed. Levine was a genius, but a flawed man who became so consumed and entitled by his gifts that he forgot his responsibility as a genius and a person of authority and privilege to protect the vulnerable. Instead, he erred and abused boys under his care. Tragic. His work shouldn’t be discounted or forgotten. It should be cherished as the product of masterful leadership by an extremely imperfect human being.

[@michaelrg3836]

Even as a genius, he would never be hired in today's Me Too polemic. He not only targeted teenagers, but young musicians at a painfully sensitive point of their artistic development. Their careers forever soiled in their minds, while having to watch his career go from strength to strength.

[@markcombrinck-hertz3649]

hi mark

[@ericktippett4158]

Robert Prechter has come up with a system of analyzing human behavior based on the Elliott Wave Theory that has drawn much attention in the realm of economics and claims that human behavior however unconscious brings about public events and changes of mood. This particular historical cycle as those before seems to be stirring public opinion to search under ever bed and blanket for 'scandals' whereas in previous cycles no one would have wanted to know about this (whether it was true or not!) and would have turned their heads the other way and their ears off it! I wonder what Bob Prechter, himself a musician, is thinking about this?

[@gregwest2028]

He was looking to audition parts for The Rusty Trombone....😂

[@tulliusagrippa5752]

We miss you, James. You were one of a kind! A pox on your detractors and on the self righteous hypocrites who tried to destroy you. They knew what they were doing when they consented - it takes two to tango!!

[@NYCOPERAFAN]

Certainly very talented in pulling the wool over other people's eyes including till 2017 a fairly worshipful U.S. media as this hagiography aptly demonstrates.

[@MrCC379]

Was this Bob Simon's last story before he died unexpectedly?

[@suzannederringer1607]

Levine was 'Controversial' almost from the beginning of his Met career. The Met kept covering up and paying for his Extramusical Activities. We all knew about this as young music students in Manhattan in the '70s. This kind of corruption was one of the reasons I abandoned Music for many years.

[@NYCOPERAFAN]

Its goes back to his days as a Julliard student and in Ohio during the late 60s.

[@simonboccanegra3811]

This has not aged well, for obvious reasons, but I thought it was an annoying puff piece even at the time it aired. The late Bob Simon was obviously a fan, and he lobbed softballs like Larry King. How different from the merciless grilling Mike Wallace gave Maria Callas on this program in the '70s. A casual viewer would have no idea Levine was a very controversial figure by 2015, that many saw him as stubbornly holding onto (and collecting a large salary for) a job he couldn't perform anymore, that his performances were more and more erratic and that the players were having trouble following him. It was over a year later that he finally was pried out of the music director position.

[@novagerio9244]

Of course it's a total (and well-deserved) pro-Levine documentary, but seriously! Mike Wallace?? Are you f*cking kidding yourself?? That arrogant ignorant complete asshole?? Watch how he offended Vladimir Horowitz and get real !!!

[@theodentherenewed4785]

Levine used to be better than he was in his late years. He returned to the stage, but the quality of music he directed - worsened. One way or the other - you have to admit that Levine was an extraordinary conductor, he was very good at his job.

[@NYCOPERAFAN]

Very true there were perfectly valid artistic reasons to object to this unending and disproportionate veneration. He was a fine technician and orchestra builder but left a great deal to be desired as an interpreter, stodgy and unimaginative.

[@NYCOPERAFAN]

@@novagerio9244 Maria Callas deserved far better and Levine far worse.

[@simonboccanegra3811]

@@novagerio9244 I'm not sure what made you think I was cheerleading for Wallace. I only noted that he conducted an aggressive interview with Callas and asked difficult questions, in contrast with the unenlightening tongue bath Levine got decades later from Bob Simon. I disagree with you about BS's interview of Levine -- *not* deserved. Levine by this point was in steep decline and was hanging on well past his sell-by date. Also, this isn't a "pro-Levine documentary." 60 Minutes is a newsmagazine; this is a segment. As it is a newsmagazine, it should live up to the basic expectations one has of journalism.

[@lonestarfriend]

2:14 There's no excuse for sexual misconduct, but Levine was an attractive man. His musical talent made him even more so to me.

[@lonestarfriend]

@Algernon Campbell I am.

[@NYCOPERAFAN]

Attractive????????

[@vocalfan2851]

Oh God, you guys bore me with your self-righteousness. A gentle man and great musician. I do not think for a minute he commited a "crime". And who has not had moments of indiscretion? I I urge all to hop off this crazy bandwagon of finger pointing until something is PROVEN. Then I will join the finger pointing. But not until then.... to hell with the stories from decades ago.

[@JohnPeterPressonProtopsaltis]

Maestro Levine was a great musician. It’s a good thing classical music was not formed in the age on MeToo

[@davy91101]

Any video clip regarding Levine should be retired. Previous comments apparently have not been read by the poobahs at YT.

[@uppityglivestockian]

Such sadness now I feel when I hear of "Jimmy" as Maestro Domingo would call him.... He is a genius... and many geniuses are flawed humans. If the recent allegations are true, and we won't know for sure until proven in court, and his alleged victims and he are both entitled to the fullest indulgence of their humanity and treatment as innocent until proven otherwise through due process. If that happens, we can rest more easily in whatever the outcome. If that never happens, as in it is settled out of court, then we will always doubt. While Woody Allen made easy knowing his miscreant indulgences, by marrying his own adopted step-daughter FFS, with Levine we must wait for concrete details some day, if at all. He said - he said is not proof, but it is often smoke from a fire. We shall see. Now I hear him the way I do Wagner... with part of my soul broken by a knowledge I did not want to know...

[@NYCOPERAFAN]

In fact classical music geniuses often seem to be more flawed than most. And not mitigated in the least by the usual nonsense about Woody Allen - Soon Yi was NEVER his "adopted step daughter" as he was never married to her adoptive (psychopathic) mother and did not even live in the same apartment. In any case she was not underage when they got romantically involved and he had no power over her future employment livelihood then as Levine (and Domingo) certainly did over their victims and which they did not hesitate to use.

[@davemorgan6013]

Who would have thought back then that Levine would die in obscurity only six years later.

[@114flaxton2]

Serial Abuser

[@papagen00]

So the Met replaced a gay with another gay, history repeats itself.