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 his health declined.
Met general manager Peter Gelb said Thursday that Levine, who will turn 73 in June, will become music director emeritus and a successor will be appointed in "a couple months." While Levine intends to conduct in future seasons and will remain head of the company's young artist development program, the Met said his health has made it difficult for him to keep a full schedule.
BOSTON – A Harvard University graduate who is the president of a popular local brewery apologized Thursday for remarks he said "came out all wrong" regarding the Ivy League school's edict that centuries-old exclusively male Final Clubs admit women.
It began when Charles M. Storey, Harpoon Brewery boss and graduate board president of the 225-year-old Porcellian Club, wrote an emailed statement to The Crimson campus newspaper Tuesday to defend the club's policies and say that he hopes "the administration will not set the precedent of creating a 'blacklist' of organizations that students cannot join." He suggested doing so smacked of "McCarthyism" and would be a blow to campus traditions of free association.
