Initially We Performed In Halls With Capacities

I Just Wish, Maybe, That I'd Started Conducting Earlier. I Was About 40 When I Started. Apart From That I Don't Really Have Any Regrets. Is That Bad?

I Would Like New People With New Ideas To Come Into It And Change It.

Initially We Performed In Halls With Capacities Of 1,000.

Most Beethoven Symphonies Require 80 Or More Instruments, And The Late Romantics Even More.

The Awful Thing About A Conductor Becoming Geriatric Is That You Seem To Become More Desirable, Not Less.