How do you get to Carnegie Hall? James Levine slayed the punchline and showed that nothing but iron will gets you onto that historic NYC stage.
Last night, the American conductor, in a motorized wheelchair, broke his 2+ year performance absence with a comeback concert of Wagner, Beethoven and Schubert accompanied by the inexhaustible Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin. Bernheimer for the FT here, Tommasini for the NYTimes here.