The Ravinia Festival, where Levine served as music director for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's summer residencies from 1973 to 1993, announced that it had «severed all ties» with him, though he had planned to begin a five - year
term as conductor laureate in the summer of 2018.
The score is by young British composer Benjamin Wallfisch, perhaps still best - known
as orchestrator and
conductor for Dario Marianelli, but who has also been making a name for himself
as a composer in his own right (and in film
terms, last year's Conquest 1453 is perhaps his most popular effort to date).