Every Day We Make More Progress Toward

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.

Somehow, Conductor As This Superhuman Conduit Between The Masters And The Masterpieces And The Immortals.

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

Los Angeles Is Just A More Open Place. The Way L.a. Functions Is That People Give You A Forum. They Say, Show Us What You Can Do.

Stravinsky Is Masterly: His Harmony Is Conceived So Precisely That It Can Only Be The Way It Is.