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And At The Same Time, I Had My Very First Concert At The Age Of 16. I Hadn't Heard A Symphony Orchestra Before, And I Was So Deeply Impressed I Said I Have To Be A Conductor.

You Know As I Started As A Shy Young Conductor, I Always Wanted To Cooperate. To Build Up The Musicians. To Help Them To Be Better Than Without A Conductor. And Sometimes Young Talented Musicians Have To Be Encouraged.

Very Often, If I Know The Orchestra Doesn't Know A Piece Or It's A New Piece, I Have Main Ideas About It. But Then We Start To Play And I Never Talk About Places Where They Played So Beautiful And So Clear In The Beginning That There Is Nothing To Say.

Even I Had No Opportunity To Conduct Very Many Concerts After World War Ii.

In South America, I Heard The 8th Symphony Of Beethoven. And The Young Conductor Thought, Beethoven Must Be Heroic. But This Is Piece Which Shouldn't Be Heroic. And This Was Such A Misunderstanding, Such A Deep Misunderstanding.