James Levine, the conductor who led the Metropolitan Opera in New York and before that many of the world's great orchestras, has died at the age of 77.
His career was overshadowed first by ill health, then by a series of allegations of sexual abuse and harassment going back decades.
Our US Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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