I Was Different From Most Young Conductors

As I Came To New York, It Was For Me A New Beginning. To Discover What People Are Living Here. What Do They Need, What Do They Expect, What Would They Like To Be The Image And The Performance Of The New York Philharmonic?

What I Never Overcame Is A Kind Of Shyness.

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.

Sometimes If You Have Very Confident People, You Have To Tell Them Please, Be Polite, There Are Other Players Are Good Enough As You And You Should Never Speak Out Of An Orchestra.

If You Go To Japan For Instance, You Should Know That They Have A Different Way Of Playing Beethoven Or Brahms. But If You Play With Them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, They Have A Wonderful Light Feeling For That.