MUSIC

Musical Chairs, Musical Evolution

By CHRISTOPHER H. GIBBS

The long-anticipated announcement last fall of James Levine as the new music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra concluded, at least for a while, an unusually lively realignment of leadership among many of the world's top orchestras and opera companies. During the past several years, prized positions opened up at four of the historically five premier...

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