March 2011

In the film, conciliatory remarks follow, and Mr. Israelevitch offers a summary in pink: "In the end, you know, I think the soup is going to turn out to be quite delicious." Presumably, his retirement in 2008 simply reflected a fullness of…

“Somehow I could tell the orchestra when they looked at me, that they didn't see what they needed,” he said. "And I could feel that I wasn't giving what they needed, because I was distracted with the fever and the pain... I couldn't say,…