The Biggest Difference Between U.s And Most

I Think We Still Do Have A Pr Problem In The Sense That These Institutions Portray Themselves Quite Often As A Museum Without The Contemporary Wing. For A Young Cutting-edge Person, Why Would You Get Into That Sort Of Business, Which Is Very Clearly Geared Towards Dead Or Almost Dead People?

I Like This Idea Of Identification With The Local Team. I Think It's Great. That's What An Orchestra Should Be. It's An Orchestra For Its Hometown, And It Serves The People.

The Classical Music Industry, Has Been An Industry Of Covers. So We Do Covers, And If I Compare This With The Rock And Pop Side, What Is The Most Exciting Event?

Coming From A Sort Of Very Rigid European Type Of Training To This Culture Which Is Just A Little More Open - A Lot More Open, And Kind Of Curious, And Asking Different Sorts Of Questions.because The Problem For Me Was That The European Modernist Movement In The '70s Was All About Right Or Wrong. Some Things Were Right And You Were Dealing With The Truth, As It Were, And Then Some Things Were Wrong And Therefore Not Allowed.

With American Orchestras, In Particular, Because They Play In Such Huge Halls, Getting A True Pianissimo Is Very Hard.