When You Play Mozart, It's So Clean,

You Learn A Lot About Each Other From A Tour, Musically And Humanly.

For Me To Rehearse With A Children's Orchestra A Mahler Symphony Was To Really Work. We Had Three Or Four Weeks Of Rehearsal With The Orchestra, Every Day Eight Or Nine Hours, Putting The First Together. I Had Been Conducting Tchaikovsky A Lot And Beethoven, But Mahler Was Different.

In My Imagination Yes, I Remember, When I Was Six Years Old, I Was Conducting All This Concert In My House. But Now It's Real.

It's A Physical Challenge. It's A Spiritual Challenge. I'm Studying Almost Every Day A Different Symphony, Not Returning To Any One For A Week.

A Friend Gave Me A Cd Of The 'pathetique' Symphony As A Christmas Present. I Went Home, And I Put On The Cd Expecting To Listen To Tchaikovsky. But It Started 'ta Ta Ta Taaa.' It Was Too Long For Me. I Didn't Understand It At First, But Then I Fell In Love, In Love, In Love.