I Love A Visceral Sound, The Kind

I Feel That This Is My Artistic Home, And I'm Very Happy To Be A California Artist Together With Many Others Who Are Not From Here Originally But Who Decided To Make This The Center Of Their Activities. There's Something About That That I Find Very Inspiring And Satisfying.

I Like This Idea Of Identification With The Local Team. I Think It's Great. That's What An Orchestra Should Be. It's An Orchestra For Its Hometown, And It Serves The People.

You Know, In Some Ways Conducting Is Counter-intuitive. It's Like Winter Driving In Finland - If You Skid, The Natural Reaction Is To Fight With The Wheel And Jam On The Brakes, Which Is The Quickest Way To Get Killed. What You Have To Do Is Let Go, And The Car Will Right Itself. It's The Same When An Orchestra Loses Its Ensemble. You Have To Resist The Temptation To Semaphore, And Let The Orchestra Find Its Own Way Back To The Pulse.

The Philharmonic Became Such A Journey And Adventure In My Life, And A Deeply Satisfying Thing.

I'm Trying To Conduct Only Five Months A Year, And The Rest Will Be Composing Time. I'm Trying To Spend As Much As I Can Out Of Those Months Here In L.a., Because For Creative Work, This Is A Fantastic Place.