After a shoulder injury forced him off the podium, Levine worked on his health. “It allowed me to restart. Everything in the training, everything in the diet could be done without my having to save energy for rehearsals and performances. What’s very important to my work is the continuity and repetition, to be able to go deeper and to have the response of the orchestra, etc., deeper. This thing forced me — I never would have stopped — this forced me to use the time to get to a different state.”