I Started Conducting Lessons And I Realized

There's So Much Energy Exchange [in Conduction], So You Get Back A Lot, Of Course, But You Also Have To Give A Lot. It's Kind Of High-energy Thing.

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.

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

There Is More Openness In La To Possibilities Than On The East Coast Of America. There Is A Pioneering Spirit There That Stems From The Reason People Went Out There In The First Place-to Find Something New.

We Need New Art. Old Art Cannot Do That. It Can Do Lots Of Other Things, And Of Course Humanity Hasn't Changed That Much In The Last Thousand Or Two Thousand Years.so That The Old Greek Dramas Are Still At The Very Heart, Core, Of Human Experience, But Still We Need New Stuff.