Music Is Powered By Ideas. If You

When You Learn Something From People, Or From A Culture, You Accept It As A Gift, And It Is Your Lifelong Commitment To Preserve It And Build On It.

Perfection Is Not Very Communicative

Culture Opens Our Hearts To One Another. And The Currency In Culture Is Not Money, But Trust.

My Teacher, My Great Cello Teacher Leonard Rose, Was Such A Great Cellist, And Nurturing Man, Very Patient. But I Grew Up Not Only Admiring Him, But Obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline Du Pre, And Many Others, Including Many Of My Peers And Contemporaries.

I Remember When I Was Growing Up. My Great Wish Was To Understand Who I Was And How I Fit In The World.