I Don't Believe In An Annual Dose

Coming From A Sort Of Very Rigid European Type Of Training To This Culture Which Is Just A Little More Open - A Lot More Open, And Kind Of Curious, And Asking Different Sorts Of Questions.because The Problem For Me Was That The European Modernist Movement In The '70s Was All About Right Or Wrong. Some Things Were Right And You Were Dealing With The Truth, As It Were, And Then Some Things Were Wrong And Therefore Not Allowed.

Classic Music Somehow Changed, And It Changed Between The First And The Second World Wars, And Somehow What Happened Was That The Hero That Had Been The Composer, The Hero Now Was The Performer, And Especially The Conductor.

I Always Felt That One Day I Would Have To Make The Change In My Own Life, Bite The Bullet And See What It Is To Be A Composer Who Conducts Rather Than The Other Way Around.

The Underlying Process In Northern Music Tends To Be Slower And Continuous, Whatever's Happening On The Surface; In Southern Music The Underlying Process Is Always Faster.

Orchestras Have Become Used To The Emphasis On The Separation Of Layers, Of The Ultimate Precision And Clarity.