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Levine bows out as Met music director after 40 years

NEW YORK (AP) — James Levine, the former Boston Symphony Orchestra maestro, will retire as the Metropolitan Opera's music director at the end of the season because of Parkinson's disease, ending a 40-year run that lifted the company to a golden era but became increasingly problematic as

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Boston Symphony wins Grammy for Shostakovich recording

BOSTON — The Boston Symphony Orchestra is rhapsodizing over winning the Grammy award for best orchestral performance Monday. The symphony and musical director Andris Nelsons won the orchestral performance prize for "Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow," which features Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 and the Passacaglia from

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Boston Symphony Orchestra extends music director’s contract

BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Symphony Orchestra said Monday it was extending the contract of Andris Nelsons, who last year became the orchestra's youngest conductor in a century. The new eight-year contract with Nelsons will run through 2022, the orchestra announced. It replaces the original five-year deal that began