I Wanted To Get Away From My

I Would Never Have Become Music Director Of The Chicago Symphony, Which Would Have Been An Extremely Sad Loss.

The Experience Awakened 'my Tremendous Musical Ambition, Which Has Never Subsided To This Day.

Everyone Says You Have To Be A Specialist, And If You Conduct Wagner You Cannot Conduct Mozart - This Is Nonsense.

After About Six Months, I Told My Mother That I Wanted The Lessons To Stop, And She Was Intelligent Enough Not To Force Me To Continue. Besides, The Lessons Cost Money, Which Was Anything But Abundant In Our Household.

From Toscanini I Learnt The Essential And Desperate Seriousness Of Making Music.