Sometimes You Spend Nine Months, 10 Months,

We're Not Talking About An Elite Art Form From The Price Point Of View. We Have A Building In L.a. That Is Incredibly Open, Exciting, Inviting, And All That, And There's No Reason For This Music Not To Be Part Of Everybody's Everyday Life.

The Sort Of Commercial Parameters Of Classical Music Changed After The [world War Ii] , And The Whole Industry Became More Backward-looking.

Conducting Was Just Something That Happened By Fluke.

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.

I Can't Imagine How Many First Performances I've Done, Perhaps 500. Some Of Them Have Been Very Good, And Some Of Course Very Bad.