Karl Miller writes:

>As for the success of Levine...that has me stumped.  He isn't like any
>designer gown, he ain't exotic, he is a very well trained highly talented
>musician, but for me, in the final analysis, his interpretations bore
>me to death.

Overrated for sure, but that has not stopped the Boston press from
lionizing him, just as in a different way it covered for Ozawa.

Roger Hecht