Lockhart sure BSO leader will heal fast post-surgery

Keith Lockhart, conductor of the Boston Pops and the Utah Symphony, says he's confident that James Levine, music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will bounce back from recent shoulder surgery. Levine is set to return to performing this week.

"He's a very determined man. I wouldn't bet against him," Lockhart said of Levine, who is also music director of the Metropolitan Opera.

Levine, 63, will open the BSO's Tanglewood summer program in Lenox on Friday. It will be his first time at the podium since injuring his shoulder four months ago.

He tore his right rotator cuff when he fell leaving the stage at Boston's Symphony Hall on March 1.