D E

Warren Zicie
Bakes 'American Pie' . .78

Ernest Hemingway's
'Independent Woman' .83

5
at s In
Stereo

A Levite

1,1m'+ I ivrine: 'For the ,.fe.irest

vision ()I - lames Levine, we niust
to the room here is the Levitt' t
music in the temple. the temple
of`music called the Metropolitan
Opera liouse. There be continues
his unceasing search for beauty and
artistic truth, which is itselfan itet
of worcbtp. — Robert iMarsb. /rem
011110gMeS (Ind MSCOPC11:0: 1411 17es
?If:
Li and iirusic."
• . c

•

t

I

OO• ** .94

Xis Temple

Metropolitan Opera
Conductor and Artistic
Director James Levine
leads The 3 Tenors-in
the summer's most highly
anticipated concert.

A

SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to the Jewish News

n outdoor concert under
Michigan stars — and with
international opera stars —
will not be a new experience
for famed conductor James Levine.
Before his career at the
Metropolitan Opera in New York,
where he became its first artistic direc-
tor in 1986, Levine spent many sum-
mer evenings conducting for the
Meadow Brook Music Festival.
The seasonal home of the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra also became a
life-changing personal setting as the
place where he met then-student oboe
player Suzanne Thomson, a Detroit
native who has been his significant
other for more than 30 years.
The audience will be a lot larger July
17 as Levine raises his baton at Tiger
Stadium to conduct for the stellar
singers known around the world as "The
3 Tenors" — Jose Carreras, Placido
Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti. The
day before, the dress rehearsal at the
Detroit Opera House will serve as a ben-
efit for the Michigan Opera Theatre.
Detroit is the fourth North
American city — after Los Angeles,
New York and Toronto — to host this
performance event.
The illustrious trio first appeared
together in 1990 in Rome with Zubin
Mehta conducting. It was a celebration

LEVINE on page 90

7/9
1999

Detroit Jewish News

75