A 'Cult' Catapulted Conductor Levine's Career

As Albin Ifsich, a young violin student, stood in the doorway, the conductor wanted to know one thing: If he could save just one person, who would it be — the conductor or the violinist's own mother?If you pick your mother, Ifsich recalled the conductor telling him, you will walk out this door and never see me again. If you pick me, you will close the door, step into this house, and be with me forever.