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Another charge is that Levine plays favorites with singers, overusing some voices while ignoring others. "Levine's love affairs with certain voices are total," complains a Met singer. "When he finds a voice he likes, he uses it over and over." Like any other conductor, Levine has a roster of singers he finds congenial, among them Soprano Teresa Stratas, Tenor Placido Domingo and Baritone Milnes. Sometimes, as with veteran Diva Scotto, their voices are long faded but still histrionically effective. Sometimes they are not up to major-house standards, as with Tenor Philip Creech, whom Levine has pushed beyond...
...Capitol embarrassment. White stopped further encroachments on the surrounding residential neighborhood. He commissioned a master plan for development of the congressional campus within its existing boundaries. And when a third Senate office building became necessary in 1972 (supplementing the Dirksen and Richard Russell buildings), he spurned the short roster of traditional architects who had worked on Capitol Hill for generations and selected John Carl Warnecke and Associates...
Leithauser and Long shared a key baseline position. Long averaged 7.8 points a game--third on the Crimson roster while Leithauser had earned Long's starting position just before the Christmas recess and averaged 4.4 as the Crimson's sixth...
...Coca-Cola Company added Diet Coke to its soft drink roster to "expand in an expanding market," John E. Bazaire, central division manager of New England Coke, said yesterday...
Someone still notices though, namely the organizers of the United States Junior National team. Fusco was named to the 20-man roster scheduled to play seven games from Dec. 26 to Jan 4 at the World Junior Championships in Leningrad...