Gene Halaburt quotes the NY Times:

>"In a seismic occurrence in the classical musical world, James Levine,
>the longtime artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera and one of
>the world's most celebrated conductors, has accepted the post of
>music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, ...

Seismic it may be, but the time scale is more like continental drift.  He
will not be full time in Boston until his Munich contract is over, in 2004.

Professor Bernard Chasan
Physics Department, Boston University