This Country, And The West Coast, Especially,

Conducting Is Intensely Social. You Work With A Hundred People Every Day. You Collaborate, You Try To Focus Their Thoughts, You Try To Give Them A Concept, You Try To Inspire Them, And It's Actually Exhausting.

The Northern Idea Of Form Is More Of A Process. The Various Units Of The Form Overlap. You Can't Tell Where Some Things Stop And New Things Start. This Is Typical Of Sibelius.

We're Dealing With Music That Is Being Played By Traditional Instruments In A Specifically Built Building Called A Concert Hall. But Classical Is Not - The Reference Is Wrong, Because Classical On One Hand Refers To One Period In Musical History, Which Is Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven, Which Is A Fine Period In Musical History, But It Was A While Ago.on The Other Hand, It Sort Of Alludes To Some Kind Of "class," Which A, Is Not True; B, Is Kind Of Detrimental To The Whole Idea. Because The Point Is That This Music Is Available And It's Actually Relatively Reasonably Priced.

I Love A Visceral Sound, The Kind That Hits You In The Belly.

The Royal Festival Hall In London Is Nice; People Hang Out There. I Think This Inviting, Non-exclusive Character Is Very Important.