James Levine cancels show with Phila. Orchestra

Eminent conductor James Levine was to lead the Philadelphia Orchestra in a gala program Thursday to next Saturday. But Levine, battling Parkinson's disease, canceled Friday. The orchestra will still play, directed by conductor and composer Michael Tilson Thomas. Information: 215-893-1999 or www.philorch.org.

Adored Brit singer Adele, whose third studio LP, 25, has sold just under a bajillion copies, shows off a new look - call it nouveau haute-classique - on the cover of Vogue. Adele, 27, offers an uncharacteristic look at her private world. It's a world ruled by one simple directive: Protect and nurture Angelo, her 3-year-old son by her beau, Simon Konecki.

She has had to learn to prioritize. "I can't have any other junk in my head to worry about as well," she says. Angelo "makes me very proud of myself," she says. "When I became a parent, I felt like I was truly living. I had a purpose, where before I didn't. . . . My main thing is [being] Mum, then it's me, then it's work. I think I had to take the right amount of time off to let people miss me."

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