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Gilbert Levine

January 01, 1970

Sir[1] Gilbert Levine, GCSG (born January 22, 1948) is an American conductor. He is considered an "outstanding personality in the world of international music television."[2] He has led the PBS concert debuts of the Staatskapelle Dresden, Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, WDR Symphony Orchestra, and the Pittsburgh Symphony, and the PBS premieres of works including the Beethoven Missa Solemnis, Bach Magnificat in D, Haydn Creation, and Bruckner Symphony 9.[3]

Sir Gilbert Levine, 2012

Education edit

Levine was born in Brooklyn, New York, attended the Juilliard School of Music, and holds an A.B. degree from Princeton University and a M.A. degree from Yale University. He studied bassoon with Stephen Maxym and Sherman Walt, piano with Gilbert Kalish, Music History with Lewis Lockwood and Arthur Mendel, Music Theory with Edward T. Cone, Peter Westergaard and Milton Babbitt, ear training and score reading with Nadia Boulanger, Renée Longy, and Luise Vosgerchian, and conducting with Jacques-Louis Monod and Franco Ferrara.

Levine was assistant to Sir Georg Solti in London at the London Philharmonic Orchestra and at the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), and in Paris with l'Orchestre de Paris. He was a protégé of Klaus Tennstedt.[4]

Levine has lectured at institutions including Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, Stanford University,[5] University of Oxford,[6] Columbia University, University of California, Davis,[7] Duquesne University,[8] and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.[9]

He has taught conducting both at Yale and the Manhattan School of Music. His conducting students have included the American composer Aaron Jay Kernis. Levine maintains current ties to his two alma maters. He serves as a member of the Princeton University Department of Music Advisory Council and has recently been appointed to a fifth term as Associate Fellow of Trumbull College, Yale by the Yale Corporation, that university's highest governing body.[citation needed]

Early career and the Kraków Philharmonic years edit

Early in his career, Levine conducted orchestras both in Europe and the United States, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the NDR Sinfonie-Orchester Hamburg, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, and the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin.

Levine first gained international notice when he became conductor and artistic director of the Kraków Philharmonic in 1987. He was the first American chief conductor of an Eastern European orchestra. His appointment was initially controversial because of the general consensus that Krzysztof Penderecki forced the choice of Levine on the orchestra.[10]

Under his leadership, the orchestra toured Europe, the major concert halls of North America, and the Far East,[11] including the first visit by any Polish orchestra to South Korea. Under Levine, the Kraków Philharmonic also performed for the first time with such soloists as Emanuel Ax, Garrick Ohlsson, and Shlomo Mintz. He concluded his tenure in Kraków in 1993.

Concerts for Pope John Paul II and pontifical knighthood edit

In 1988, while working in Kraków, Levine met Pope John Paul II, at the latter's invitation. The Pope subsequently asked Levine to conduct the concert commemorating the 10th anniversary of his Pontificate.[12] This concert was originally broadcast by RAI, Italian television, and throughout Europe via Eurovision. It was subsequently broadcast and re-broadcast on Public Television in the U.S. over the next 17 years.

In 1993, Levine conducted for the Pope at World Youth Day in Denver. That program included the first performances of works by Bernstein, Barber, and Copland at any Papal event, and was televised worldwide.[12]

In 1994, Levine (whose mother-in-law was an Auschwitz survivor) conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the historic "Papal Concert to Commemorate the Shoah (Holocaust)," which marked the first official Vatican commemoration of the Nazi genocide of World War II.[13] Featured guest artists were Lynn Harrell and Richard Dreyfuss, who narrated an excerpt from Leonard Bernstein's Third Symphony (Kaddish).

In 1998, Levine led members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and, with the special permission of Pope John Paul II, the ancient Capella Giulia Choir of St. Peter's Basilica, in concerts to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the founding of Mission San Luis Rey in California. These concerts constituted the first visit of this 500-year-old choir to the Western Hemisphere, and were broadcast on NPR's "Performance Today".[14]

Other Papal concerts at the Vatican directed by Levine included the first of two concerts celebrating the Catholic Church's Grand Jubilee in 2000 with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Philharmonia Chorus performing parts one and two of Haydn's The Creation[15] Levine conducted a 2003 televised musical celebration of the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II's pontificate with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Saint Peter's Basilica, a concert which aired on American Broadcasting Company (ABC).

In 2004, Levine conducted his last concert for Pope John Paul II, leading the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and members of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, the London Philharmonic Choir, the Kraków Philharmonic Choir, and the Ankara Polyphonic Choir in the "Papal Concert of Reconciliation." This event was the first time that any American orchestra had performed for any Pope in the Vatican. The concert, broadcast worldwide, included Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 Resurrection, and Abraham, a specially-commissioned motet by John Harbison.[16][17]

Over the years of his relationship with John Paul II, Levine became known as "the Pope's Maestro." In 1994, for his services to the Pope and to the Vatican, he was invested as a Knight Commander of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great (KCSG), the highest Papal knighthood accorded to a non-ecclesiastical musician since Mozart.[18]

Upon John Paul II's death, Levine called him a friend and "an incredible sustenance for me."[12] In 2005, Levine conducted a memorial concert for the Pontiff, which was broadcast on PBS. That same year, Pope John Paul II's successor, Pope Benedict XVI, honoured Levine with the Silver Star of the Order of St. Gregory the Great (KC*SG), the highest papal distinction received by a Jew in the history of the Vatican.[19]

On January 31, 2016, Pope Francis honored Levine as a Pontifical Knight Grand Cross of the Equestrian Order of Saint Gregory the Great (GCSG),[20] the highest rank of the order and one very rarely bestowed. He is the second artist so honored. The other is Riccardo Muti, Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, who received that honor from Pope Benedict XVI in 2012.[21][22]

Additional work edit

In the UK, Levine and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra have recorded Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 3. In 2000, Levine was named Artistic Director and Conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra's "Millennium Creation Series." In this capacity he toured America and Europe, performing Haydn's The Creation in televised concerts in Baltimore, London, and Rome.[23][24][15] He led the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) in 2003, conducting selections from Verdi and Mozart on ABC's "Good Morning America" in a historic first for that program.

In the same year, Levine led the LPO and London Philharmonic Choir in televised performances of excerpts of Górecki's Third Symphony and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony from Kraków, during the city's reign as the European Capital of Culture. On this occasion, Levine received the Kraków Gold Medallion from the city president, in recognition of his services to Kraków's cultural life.

From 2004 to 2006, Levine led the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in a series of concerts called "Music for the Spirit," which included a 2004 performance of the Verdi Requiem.,[25] a January 2006 concert to commemorate the 100th anniversary of St. Paul's Cathedral in Pittsburgh of Haydn's The Creation, and a June 2006 concert of Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony.

In July 2005, Levine led the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Choir in the first complete performance of Beethoven Missa Solemnis in Cologne Cathedral. The performance was broadcast throughout Europe and North America. The international quartet of soloists included American tenor Jerry Hadley in his last televised concert performance.

In November of that same year, Levine directed the Orchestra of Saint Luke's and the Morgan State University Choir in a concert entitled "Rejoice in this Land", which included Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and the world premiere of Washington Speaks by Richard Danielpour, with Ted Koppel as narrator. The performance was broadcast throughout the United States both on terrestrial radio in major cities and on XM Satellite Radio.

Levine made his debut with the WDR Symphony Orchestra of Cologne in 2007 in a performance of Bruckner Symphony 9 and Te Deum with the choirs of the WDR of Cologne and the NDR Chor of Hamburg.

On April 23, 2012, Levine conducted the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Chorus in their first ever performance together, at Orchestra Hall, Symphony Center, Chicago. The program included Bogurodzica (an ancient Polish hymn), Edward T. Cone Psalm 91 (1948), Bach Magnificat in D, and Beethoven Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”. The concert was filmed for national and international television and radio broadcast.[26][27] It was first broadcast in Chicago in October 2012.[28][29]

On May 5, 2014, Levine led the Orchestra of Saint Luke's, the Kraków Philharmonic Choir and the Choral Arts Society of Washington in "Peace Through Music: In Our Age," a musical celebration of the Canonizations of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II, at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.[30] The concert included performances of Copland Fanfare for the Common Man, Verdi Messa di Requiem (Sanctus), Górecki Totus Tuus, Bernstein Chichester Psalms and Brahms First Symphony. The concert was sponsored by the Embassies of Poland, Italy, Argentina and the Holy See to the U.S., the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, Georgetown University, and WETA. The concert was taped for broadcast on PBS and internationally in Fall 2014.[31][32]

Media coverage edit

On television, Levine has been featured on many occasions, both as a news subject and in concert. In addition to his appearance on "Good Morning America," and his numerous performances on European television, the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes featured a profile of him titled "The Pope's Maestro".[33] Other stories about him have been featured on such programs as CBS Evening News, CBS Sunday Morning (on which he was profiled by Eugenia Zukerman), ABC World News Tonight, Nightline (ABC), Larry King Live (CNN),[34] and The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer (CNN). He has appeared on National Public Radio on such programs as Symphony Cast, Performance Today, and All Things Considered.

On January 14, 1992, Levine was interviewed by Studs Terkel on his WFMT (Chicago) nationally syndicated radio broadcast. Levine's recording of the Shostakovich Suite from The Golden Age, with the Krakow Philharmonic, was the featured work on that program.[35]

In 2009, TVN (Poland) broadcast a 30-minute biographical documentary on Levine entitled "The Pope’s Maestro".[36] The film dealt with his life and career, from the arrival of his family in New York from Warsaw in the early years of the 20th Century, to his studies at The Juilliard School, his life and work in Kraków under communism, and his concerts for Pope John Paul II.

Levine's memoir, The Pope’s Maestro, was published by Jossey-Bass, a Wiley Imprint, in October 2010,[37] and in Polish translation in 2012 under the title Papieski Maestro by Wydawnictwo Świat Książki.[38] Publishers Weekly wrote of The Pope's Maestro, "Not all books are worth writing; this one assuredly is, because it tells how peace can happen, one heart at a time."

On April 25, 2014, Levine was the subject of the "Saturday Interview" in The Wall Street Journal. The article was written by Matthew Kaminski.[39]

In 2017, the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University commissioned a video profile of Sir Gilbert Levine. The profile was produced by Angel Gardner and filmed and edited by Zohar Lavi-Hasson.[40]

Personal life edit

Levine is married to Dr. Vera Kalina-Levine. They have two children, David (b. 1984) and Gabriel (b. 1991).

Television concerts edit

Levine's television-aired concert performances have included the following:

Selected audio recordings edit

Honours edit

See also edit

Bibliography edit

  • "The Pope's Maestro". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved 2010-05-02.

References edit

  1. ^ Pope Benedict XVI and numerous members of the Catholic hierarchy refer to Levine as "Sir Gilbert Levine," in reference to his pontifical knighthood. However, pontifical knights and dames ordinarily carry no such pre-nominal letters or titles. Levine is also entitled to the post-nominal letters GCSG.
  2. ^ "Anton Bruckner: Sinfonie Nr.9 d-Moll und Te Deum" (in German). Retrieved 2009-03-03.
  3. ^ "Out of Many, One — A Musical Offering from Chicago — In the Spirit of John Paul". Yale University Arts Calendar. Retrieved 2013-03-21.
  4. ^ Tim Whitelaw (2008-08-01). . Muso. Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2008-09-20.
  5. ^ "Out of Many, One - a Musical Offering from Chicago - in the Spirit of John Paul". Retrieved November 27, 2022.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "All Souls College Oxford".
  7. ^ "Out of Many, One". 2016-03-30.
  8. ^ ""Pope's Maestro" to Discuss Nearly Two Decades of Making Music for Pope John Paul II". Retrieved November 27, 2022.
  9. ^ The Pope's Maestro to lecture on music and spiritual unification 2017-12-01 at the Wayback Machine, newsandfeatures.uncg.edu. Accessed November 27, 2022.
  10. ^ John Rockwell (1993-03-01). "Cracow Philharmonic As an Orchestra In Painful Transition". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-02-11.
  11. ^ . Archived from the original on 2008-06-26. Retrieved 2009-07-25.
  12. ^ a b c Larry King (2006-04-01). "Remembering Pope John Paul II". Larry King Live. Retrieved 2006-12-22.
  13. ^ Tagliabue, John (8 April 1994). "Holocaust Lamentations Echo at Vatican". The New York Times.
  14. ^ Cecil Scaglione (1998-02-06). "Vatican Choir to Perform at King of the Missions in Oceanside, California". Daily Catholic. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
  15. ^ a b "At the end of the Concert at Paul VI Hall (May 18, 2000) | John Paul II".
  16. ^ "Orchestra to make Vatican history". BBC News. 2003-11-09. Retrieved 2007-09-06.
  17. ^ Marylynne Pitz and Andrew Druckenbrod (2003-11-08). "Pittsburgh Symphony to perform for pope". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2007-09-06.
  18. ^ Gouveia, Georgette. "Writings revealed John Paul as a pope with an artist's soul". The Journal News, 2005.
  19. ^ . Archdiocese of Washington. 2016-01-31. Archived from the original on 2017-05-16. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
  20. ^ "The Pope's Maestro, Sir Gilbert Levine Conferred with Papal Honor". Archdiocese of Washington: News and Updates. February 1, 2016. Retrieved November 27, 2022.
  21. ^ . Chicago Symphony Orchestra. 2016-02-06. Archived from the original on 2015-09-05. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
  22. ^ John von Rhein (2012-05-11). "Papal honor for CSO's Riccardo Muti". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  23. ^ "London musicians take on 'Creation'; TV: Haydn's work, based on Milton's 'Paradise Lost,' is at the center of the concert, taped in Baltimore and airing on MPT.; Radio and Television".
  24. ^ "Haydn - the Creation :: Concerts :: Philharmonia Chorus".
  25. ^ Robert Croan (2004-07-12). "PSO thrills with Verdi's Requiem, though devil lurks in details". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2009-02-11.
  26. ^ . Archdiocese of Chicago. Archived from the original on 2013-01-17. Retrieved 2013-01-03.
  27. ^ von Rhein, John (2012-04-17). "'The Pope's Maestro' leads Chicago concert in honor of John Paul II". Chicago Tribune.
  28. ^ "Reissued recordings add luster to Georg Solti's legacy". Daily Southtown. 2012-10-23.
  29. ^ . Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014.
  30. ^ Midgette, Anne (May 5, 2014). "Canonization celebration: Gilbert Levine and the spirit of music". The Washington Post. Retrieved 8 February 2021./
  31. ^ Somers, Meredith (2014-04-28). "Concert for New Catholic Saints Set for Monday". Washington Times.
  32. ^ Midgette, Anne (2014-05-05). "Canonization Celebration: Gilbert Levine and the Spirit of Music". Washington Post.
  33. ^ "The Pope and his Jewish maestro". CBS Interactive. 1 January 2012.
  34. ^ Transcripts, transcripts.cnn.com. Accessed November 27, 2022.
  35. ^ "Studs Terkel Radio Archive". Retrieved June 26, 2018.
  36. ^ Biographical documentary on YouTube
  37. ^ "The Pope's Maestro".
  38. ^ . Archived from the original on 2014-05-14.
  39. ^ Kaminsky, Matthew (2014-04-25). "The Jewish Conductor and the Polish Pope". Wall Street Journal.
  40. ^ Angel Gardner & Zohar Lavi-Hasson. Sir Gilbert Levine '71 (Video). Princeton University. Retrieved March 25, 2018.
  41. ^ "The Pope Will Wind Up His Five-Day Visit to the United States on Sunday by Saying Mass at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore". NPR.org. October 6, 1995. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  42. ^ Michael Markowitz (2002-09-08). . andante.com (overall site now defunct). Archived from the original on 2005-01-13. Retrieved 2009-03-03.
  43. ^ "Sir Gilbert Levine conducts Verdi Ave Maria". YouTube.com. March 30, 2011. Archived from the original on 2021-12-19. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  44. ^ "Amazon.com: A Celebration of Peace through Music: Sir Gilbert Levine, Janos S. Darvas: Movies & TV". Amazon. 28 April 2015.
  45. ^ WETA. "A Celebration of Peace Through Music". WETA.
  46. ^ Theodore Fischer (4 November 2014). "Current's annual survey of productions in the works for public TV". Current.org.
  47. ^ John J. Puccio. "Classical Candor: Classical Music News of the Week, March 1, 2015".
  48. ^ "APT Online" April 2, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  49. ^ "A Celebration of Peace through Music DVD".
  50. ^ Bookspan, Martin (January 7, 1990). "Soundings: An American Abroad Comes Home on Disk". New York Times. Retrieved 8 February 2021./
  51. ^ "Four New Releases!". Delos Music.

External links edit

  • Gilbert Levine quotes at ThinkExist.com

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John Paul II and pontifical knighthood 4 Additional work 5 Media coverage 6 Personal life 7 Television concerts 8 Selected audio recordings 9 Honours 10 See also 11 Bibliography 12 References 13 External linksEducation editLevine was born in Brooklyn New York attended the Juilliard School of Music and holds an A B degree from Princeton University and a M A degree from Yale University He studied bassoon with Stephen Maxym and Sherman Walt piano with Gilbert Kalish Music History with Lewis Lockwood and Arthur Mendel Music Theory with Edward T Cone Peter Westergaard and Milton Babbitt ear training and score reading with Nadia Boulanger Renee Longy and Luise Vosgerchian and conducting with Jacques Louis Monod and Franco Ferrara Levine was assistant to Sir Georg Solti in London at the London Philharmonic Orchestra and at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and in Paris with l Orchestre de Paris He was a protege of Klaus Tennstedt 4 Levine has lectured at institutions including Harvard University Princeton University Yale University Stanford University 5 University of Oxford 6 Columbia University University of California Davis 7 Duquesne University 8 and the University of North Carolina Greensboro 9 He has taught conducting both at Yale and the Manhattan School of Music His conducting students have included the American composer Aaron Jay Kernis Levine maintains current ties to his two alma maters He serves as a member of the Princeton University Department of Music Advisory Council and has recently been appointed to a fifth term as Associate Fellow of Trumbull College Yale by the Yale Corporation that university s highest governing body citation needed Early career and the Krakow Philharmonic years editEarly in his career Levine conducted orchestras both in Europe and the United States including the Philadelphia Orchestra New York Philharmonic the San Francisco Symphony the Minnesota Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra the NDR Sinfonie Orchester Hamburg the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the Radio Sinfonie Orchester Berlin Levine first gained international notice when he became conductor and artistic director of the Krakow Philharmonic in 1987 He was the first American chief conductor of an Eastern European orchestra His appointment was initially controversial because of the general consensus that Krzysztof Penderecki forced the choice of Levine on the orchestra 10 Under his leadership the orchestra toured Europe the major concert halls of North America and the Far East 11 including the first visit by any Polish orchestra to South Korea Under Levine the Krakow Philharmonic also performed for the first time with such soloists as Emanuel Ax Garrick Ohlsson and Shlomo Mintz He concluded his tenure in Krakow in 1993 Concerts for Pope John Paul II and pontifical knighthood editIn 1988 while working in Krakow Levine met Pope John Paul II at the latter s invitation The Pope subsequently asked Levine to conduct the concert commemorating the 10th anniversary of his Pontificate 12 This concert was originally broadcast by RAI Italian television and throughout Europe via Eurovision It was subsequently broadcast and re broadcast on Public Television in the U S over the next 17 years In 1993 Levine conducted for the Pope at World Youth Day in Denver That program included the first performances of works by Bernstein Barber and Copland at any Papal event and was televised worldwide 12 In 1994 Levine whose mother in law was an Auschwitz survivor conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the historic Papal Concert to Commemorate the Shoah Holocaust which marked the first official Vatican commemoration of the Nazi genocide of World War II 13 Featured guest artists were Lynn Harrell and Richard Dreyfuss who narrated an excerpt from Leonard Bernstein s Third Symphony Kaddish In 1998 Levine led members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and with the special permission of Pope John Paul II the ancient Capella Giulia Choir of St Peter s Basilica in concerts to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the founding of Mission San Luis Rey in California These concerts constituted the first visit of this 500 year old choir to the Western Hemisphere and were broadcast on NPR s Performance Today 14 Other Papal concerts at the Vatican directed by Levine included the first of two concerts celebrating the Catholic Church s Grand Jubilee in 2000 with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Philharmonia Chorus performing parts one and two of Haydn s The Creation 15 Levine conducted a 2003 televised musical celebration of the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II s pontificate with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Saint Peter s Basilica a concert which aired on American Broadcasting Company ABC In 2004 Levine conducted his last concert for Pope John Paul II leading the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and members of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh the London Philharmonic Choir the Krakow Philharmonic Choir and the Ankara Polyphonic Choir in the Papal Concert of Reconciliation This event was the first time that any American orchestra had performed for any Pope in the Vatican The concert broadcast worldwide included Gustav Mahler s Symphony No 2 Resurrection and Abraham a specially commissioned motet by John Harbison 16 17 Over the years of his relationship with John Paul II Levine became known as the Pope s Maestro In 1994 for his services to the Pope and to the Vatican he was invested as a Knight Commander of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St Gregory the Great KCSG the highest Papal knighthood accorded to a non ecclesiastical musician since Mozart 18 Upon John Paul II s death Levine called him a friend and an incredible sustenance for me 12 In 2005 Levine conducted a memorial concert for the Pontiff which was broadcast on PBS That same year Pope John Paul II s successor Pope Benedict XVI honoured Levine with the Silver Star of the Order of St Gregory the Great KC SG the highest papal distinction received by a Jew in the history of the Vatican 19 On January 31 2016 Pope Francis honored Levine as a Pontifical Knight Grand Cross of the Equestrian Order of Saint Gregory the Great GCSG 20 the highest rank of the order and one very rarely bestowed He is the second artist so honored The other is Riccardo Muti Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra who received that honor from Pope Benedict XVI in 2012 21 22 Additional work editIn the UK Levine and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra have recorded Tchaikovsky s Symphony No 3 In 2000 Levine was named Artistic Director and Conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra s Millennium Creation Series In this capacity he toured America and Europe performing Haydn s The Creation in televised concerts in Baltimore London and Rome 23 24 15 He led the London Philharmonic Orchestra LPO in 2003 conducting selections from Verdi and Mozart on ABC s Good Morning America in a historic first for that program In the same year Levine led the LPO and London Philharmonic Choir in televised performances of excerpts of Gorecki s Third Symphony and Beethoven s Ninth Symphony from Krakow during the city s reign as the European Capital of Culture On this occasion Levine received the Krakow Gold Medallion from the city president in recognition of his services to Krakow s cultural life From 2004 to 2006 Levine led the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in a series of concerts called Music for the Spirit which included a 2004 performance of the Verdi Requiem 25 a January 2006 concert to commemorate the 100th anniversary of St Paul s Cathedral in Pittsburgh of Haydn s The Creation and a June 2006 concert of Gustav Mahler s Third Symphony In July 2005 Levine led the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Choir in the first complete performance of Beethoven Missa Solemnis in Cologne Cathedral The performance was broadcast throughout Europe and North America The international quartet of soloists included American tenor Jerry Hadley in his last televised concert performance In November of that same year Levine directed the Orchestra of Saint Luke s and the Morgan State University Choir in a concert entitled Rejoice in this Land which included Beethoven s Ninth Symphony and the world premiere of Washington Speaks by Richard Danielpour with Ted Koppel as narrator The performance was broadcast throughout the United States both on terrestrial radio in major cities and on XM Satellite Radio Levine made his debut with the WDR Symphony Orchestra of Cologne in 2007 in a performance of Bruckner Symphony 9 and Te Deum with the choirs of the WDR of Cologne and the NDR Chor of Hamburg On April 23 2012 Levine conducted the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Chorus in their first ever performance together at Orchestra Hall Symphony Center Chicago The program included Bogurodzica an ancient Polish hymn Edward T Cone Psalm 91 1948 Bach Magnificat in D and Beethoven Symphony No 3 Eroica The concert was filmed for national and international television and radio broadcast 26 27 It was first broadcast in Chicago in October 2012 28 29 On May 5 2014 Levine led the Orchestra of Saint Luke s the Krakow Philharmonic Choir and the Choral Arts Society of Washington in Peace Through Music In Our Age a musical celebration of the Canonizations of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II at Constitution Hall in Washington D C 30 The concert included performances of Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Verdi Messa di Requiem Sanctus Gorecki Totus Tuus Bernstein Chichester Psalms and Brahms First Symphony The concert was sponsored by the Embassies of Poland Italy Argentina and the Holy See to the U S the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington Georgetown University and WETA The concert was taped for broadcast on PBS and internationally in Fall 2014 31 32 Media coverage editOn television Levine has been featured on many occasions both as a news subject and in concert In addition to his appearance on Good Morning America and his numerous performances on European television the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes featured a profile of him titled The Pope s Maestro 33 Other stories about him have been featured on such programs as CBS Evening News CBS Sunday Morning on which he was profiled by Eugenia Zukerman ABC World News Tonight Nightline ABC Larry King Live CNN 34 and The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer CNN He has appeared on National Public Radio on such programs as Symphony Cast Performance Today and All Things Considered On January 14 1992 Levine was interviewed by Studs Terkel on his WFMT Chicago nationally syndicated radio broadcast Levine s recording of the Shostakovich Suite from The Golden Age with the Krakow Philharmonic was the featured work on that program 35 In 2009 TVN Poland broadcast a 30 minute biographical documentary on Levine entitled The Pope s Maestro 36 The film dealt with his life and career from the arrival of his family in New York from Warsaw in the early years of the 20th Century to his studies at The Juilliard School his life and work in Krakow under communism and his concerts for Pope John Paul II Levine s memoir The Pope s Maestro was published by Jossey Bass a Wiley Imprint in October 2010 37 and in Polish translation in 2012 under the title Papieski Maestro by Wydawnictwo Swiat Ksiazki 38 Publishers Weekly wrote of The Pope s Maestro Not all books are worth writing this one assuredly is because it tells how peace can happen one heart at a time On April 25 2014 Levine was the subject of the Saturday Interview in The Wall Street Journal The article was written by Matthew Kaminski 39 In 2017 the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University commissioned a video profile of Sir Gilbert Levine The profile was produced by Angel Gardner and filmed and edited by Zohar Lavi Hasson 40 Personal life editLevine is married to Dr Vera Kalina Levine They have two children David b 1984 and Gabriel b 1991 Television concerts editLevine s television aired concert performances have included the following 1982 Reykjavik Arts Festival Vladimir Ashkenazy Founder Closing Concert June 20 1982 Sinfoniuhljomsveitinn Iceland Symphony Orchestra and Iceland Symphony Choir Glinka A Life for the Tsar Excerpts Mussorgsky Boris Godunov Excerpts Soloist Boris Christoff Live Broadcast RUV Icelandic National Broadcasting 1988 A Musical Offering from the Vatican Orchestra of RAI Roma Choirs of RAI Krakow Philharmonic and Warsaw Philharmonic Brahms Ave Maria Penderecki Stabat Mater Dvorak Mass in D Original Broadcaster RAI Roma European Broadcast Union PBS broadcast as A Musical Offering from the Vatican A Papal Concert 1992 Released on VHS by View Video 1994 Papal Concert to Commemorate the Shoah Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Coro della Filharmonia Romana Bruch Kol Nidre Beethoven Ninth Symphony Third Movement Schubert Psalm 92 Excerpt of the Bernstein Third Symphony Kaddish Bernstein Chichester Psalms Movements 2 and 3 Original Broadcaster RAI EBU PBS WNET Released on VHS by Rhino 1995 A Symphony of Psalms Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms 1930 Original Broadcaster MPT Maryland Public Television and NPR 41 2000 Jubilee Creation Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus Haydn The Creation US Broadcast by Maryland Public Broadcasting PBS 2000 Concert for the 80th Birthday of His Holiness Pope John Paul II Haydn The Creation Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus Original Broadcaster RAI EBU 2000 A Thousand Years of Music and Spirit London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir Bogurodzica Gorecki Third Symphony Second Movement Beethoven Ninth Symphony Original Broadcaster Telewizja Polska US broadcast nationwide by WTTW PBS 2002 Concert in Commemoration of the 1st Anniversary of the Terror Attacks of September 11 Sachsische Staatskapelle Dresden and Munchener Bach Chor Barber Agnus Dei Gorecki Totus Tuus Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem Original Broadcaster Telewizja Polska EBU 42 2004 Papal Concert of Reconciliation Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh London Philharmonic Choir Krakow Philharmonic Choir Ankara Polyphonic Choir Harbison Abraham World Premiere Mahler Second Symphony First Fourth and Fifth Movements Original Broadcaster RAI EBU US broadcast by WQED Pittsburgh Released on DVD by WQED Multimedia Pittsburgh 2004 ABC Good Morning America Verdi Ave Maria Mozart Symphony K 95 London Philharmonic Orchestra Narrator Diane Sawyer Broadcast live from Saint Peter s Basilica Vatican City 43 2005 Crossing the Bridge of Faiths Im Memoriam Pope John Paul II Sachsische Staatskapelle Dresden and Munchener Bach Chor Gorecki Totus Tuus Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem Original Broadcaster WQED Pittsburgh PBS 2005 Missa Solemnis Beethoven Missa Solemnis Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London Philharmonic Choir Original Broadcaster WDR Koln 3SAT released on DVD by Arthaus 2007 Bruckner Ninth Symphony Bruckner Te Deum WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln WDR Rundfunkchor Koln NDR Chor Hamburg Original Broadcaster WDR Koln 3SAT 2008 From Heart to Heart Beethoven s Plea for Peace Missa Solemnis from Cologne Cathedral Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London Philharmonic Choir Soloists Bozena Harasimowicz Monica Groop Jerry Hadley Franz Josef Selig Co production of WDR Koln and Peter Rosen Productions Inc Original Broadcaster WQED Multimedia Pittsburgh and American Public Television APT 2010 Music of Majestic Spirit Anton Bruckner Symphony 9 and Te Deum from Cologne Cathedral WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln WDR Rundfunkchor Koln NDR Chor Hamburg Soloists Anja Harteros Liliana Nikiteanu Christian Elsner Franz Josef Selig Co production of WDR Koln and Peter Rosen Productions Inc Original Broadcaster WQED Multimedia Pittsburgh Released on DVD by WQED Multimedia 2012 Out of Many One a Musical Offering from Chicago in the Spirit of John Paul Bogurodzica Edward T Cone Psalm 91 1948 J S Bach Magnificat in D BWV 243 Beethoven Symphony 3 Eroica Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra Chicago Symphony Chorus Soloists Amanda Majeski Sara Mingardo Antonio Poli John Relyea Co Production Peter Rosen Productions D2 Digital Original Broadcaster WTTW Chicago 2015 A Celebration of Peace Through Music Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Verdi Messa da Requiem Sanctus Gorecki Totus Tuus Bernstein Chichester Psalms Brahms First Symphony Orchestra of St Luke s Krakow Philharmonic Choir Choral Arts Society of Washington Theodore Nisbett Boy Solo Director Janos S Darvas Producers Dennis Obrien D2 Digital Claudia Groh WETA APT Released on DVD by Kino Lorber 44 45 46 47 48 49 Selected audio recordings editMussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition RSO Berlin Capriccio Penderecki Passacaglia and Rondo For Orchestra Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra Polskie Nagrania Muza Britten Simple Symphony Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge Les Illuminations with Elisabeth Soderstrom English Chamber Orchestra Arabesque 50 Shostakovich First Symphony Age of Gold excerpts Concerto for Piano Trumpet and Strings Op 35 Garrick Ohlsson Maurice Murphy Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra Arabesque Papal Concert to Commemorate the Holocaust Bruch Kol Nidrei Beethoven Ninth Symphony Movement 3 Schubert Psalm 92 Bernstein Third Symphony excerpt and Chichester Psalms Movements 2 and 3 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Lynn Harrell Richard Dreyfuss Narrator Tchaikovsky Third Symphony Rimsky Korsakov Piano Concerto Op 30 Jeffrey Campbell Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Telarc A Celebration of Peace Through Music Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Verdi Messa da Requiem Sanctus Gorecki Totus Tuus Bernstein Chichester Psalms Brahms First Symphony Orchestra of St Luke s Krakow Philharmonic Choir Choral Arts Society of Washington Theodore Nisbett Boy Solo Delos Productions 51 Honours editOrder of Saint Gregory the GreatSee also editList of Princeton University people List of Yale University people List of Juilliard School peopleBibliography edit The Pope s Maestro Barnes amp Noble Retrieved 2010 05 02 References edit Pope Benedict XVI and numerous members of the Catholic hierarchy refer to Levine as Sir Gilbert Levine in reference to his pontifical knighthood However pontifical knights and dames ordinarily carry no such pre nominal letters or titles Levine is also entitled to the post nominal letters GCSG Anton Bruckner Sinfonie Nr 9 d Moll und Te Deum in German Retrieved 2009 03 03 Out of Many One A Musical Offering from Chicago In the Spirit of John Paul Yale University Arts Calendar Retrieved 2013 03 21 Tim Whitelaw 2008 08 01 Sir Gilbert Levine Muso Archived from the original on 2011 07 14 Retrieved 2008 09 20 Out of Many One a Musical Offering from Chicago in the Spirit of John Paul Retrieved November 27 2022 permanent dead link All Souls College Oxford Out of Many One 2016 03 30 Pope s Maestro to Discuss Nearly Two Decades of Making Music for Pope John Paul II Retrieved November 27 2022 The Pope s Maestro to lecture on music and spiritual unification Archived 2017 12 01 at the Wayback Machine newsandfeatures uncg edu Accessed November 27 2022 John Rockwell 1993 03 01 Cracow Philharmonic As an Orchestra In Painful Transition New York Times Retrieved 2009 02 11 Sir Gilbert Levine Archived from the original on 2008 06 26 Retrieved 2009 07 25 a b c Larry King 2006 04 01 Remembering Pope John Paul II Larry King Live Retrieved 2006 12 22 Tagliabue John 8 April 1994 Holocaust Lamentations Echo at Vatican The New York Times Cecil Scaglione 1998 02 06 Vatican Choir to Perform at King of the Missions in Oceanside California Daily Catholic Retrieved 2008 05 31 a b At the end of the Concert at Paul VI Hall May 18 2000 John Paul II Orchestra to make Vatican history BBC News 2003 11 09 Retrieved 2007 09 06 Marylynne Pitz and Andrew Druckenbrod 2003 11 08 Pittsburgh Symphony to perform for pope Pittsburgh Post Gazette Retrieved 2007 09 06 Gouveia Georgette Writings revealed John Paul as a pope with an artist s soul The Journal News 2005 The Pope s Maestro Sir Gilbert Levine Conferred with Papal Honor Archdiocese of Washington 2016 01 31 Archived from the original on 2017 05 16 Retrieved 2016 02 06 The Pope s Maestro Sir Gilbert Levine Conferred with Papal Honor Archdiocese of Washington News and Updates February 1 2016 Retrieved November 27 2022 Riccardo Muti Chicago Symphony Orchestra 2016 02 06 Archived from the original on 2015 09 05 Retrieved 2016 02 06 John von Rhein 2012 05 11 Papal honor for CSO s Riccardo Muti Chicago Tribune Retrieved 2016 02 08 London musicians take on Creation TV Haydn s work based on Milton s Paradise Lost is at the center of the concert taped in Baltimore and airing on MPT Radio and Television Haydn the Creation Concerts Philharmonia Chorus Robert Croan 2004 07 12 PSO thrills with Verdi s Requiem though devil lurks in details Pittsburgh Post Gazette Retrieved 2009 02 11 Peace through music In the spirit of John Paul Chicago 2012 Archdiocese of Chicago Archived from the original on 2013 01 17 Retrieved 2013 01 03 von Rhein John 2012 04 17 The Pope s Maestro leads Chicago concert in honor of John Paul II Chicago Tribune Reissued recordings add luster to Georg Solti s legacy Daily Southtown 2012 10 23 Speak Out for Nov 2 2012 Chicago Tribune Archived from the original on 12 May 2014 Midgette Anne May 5 2014 Canonization celebration Gilbert Levine and the spirit of music The Washington Post Retrieved 8 February 2021 Somers Meredith 2014 04 28 Concert for New Catholic Saints Set for Monday Washington Times Midgette Anne 2014 05 05 Canonization Celebration Gilbert Levine and the Spirit of Music Washington Post The Pope and his Jewish maestro CBS Interactive 1 January 2012 Transcripts transcripts cnn com Accessed November 27 2022 Studs Terkel Radio Archive Retrieved June 26 2018 Biographical documentary on YouTube The Pope s Maestro Ksiegarnia internetowa swiatksiazki pl Archived from the original on 2014 05 14 Kaminsky Matthew 2014 04 25 The Jewish Conductor and the Polish Pope Wall Street Journal Angel Gardner amp Zohar Lavi Hasson Sir Gilbert Levine 71 Video Princeton University Retrieved March 25 2018 The Pope Will Wind Up His Five Day Visit to the United States on Sunday by Saying Mass at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore NPR org October 6 1995 Retrieved March 27 2018 Michael Markowitz 2002 09 08 Classical Musicians Around the World Will Help Mark Anniversary of 11 September Attacks andante com overall site now defunct Archived from the original on 2005 01 13 Retrieved 2009 03 03 Sir Gilbert Levine conducts Verdi Ave Maria YouTube com March 30 2011 Archived from the original on 2021 12 19 Retrieved March 27 2018 Amazon com A Celebration of Peace through Music Sir Gilbert Levine Janos S Darvas Movies amp TV Amazon 28 April 2015 WETA A Celebration of Peace Through Music WETA Theodore Fischer 4 November 2014 Current s annual survey of productions in the works for public TV Current org John J Puccio Classical Candor Classical Music News of the Week March 1 2015 APT Online Archived April 2 2015 at the Wayback Machine A Celebration of Peace through Music DVD Bookspan Martin January 7 1990 Soundings An American Abroad Comes Home on Disk New York Times Retrieved 8 February 2021 Four New Releases Delos Music External links editGilbert Levine quotes at ThinkExist com Grussbotschaft von Papst Benedikt XVI anlasslich der Auffuhrung der Missa solemnis im Kolner Dom U S Premiere of the 7th Public Television Special by Princeton University Alumnus Sir Gilbert Levine 71 Lewis Center for the Arts Princeton University announcement Address of John Paul II at the end of the Concert at Paul VI Hall 18 May 2000 American Public Television A Thousand Years of Music and Spirit program description Maryland Public Television Press Release Pope Benedict XVI Beethoven Plea for Peace 7 April 2008 WQED Pittsburgh Press Release on Crossing the Bridge of Faiths Music in Memoriam Press Release WQED PBS Present A Celebration of Faiths The Papal Concert of Reconciliation Knights of Columbus Rejoice In This 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