I Feel Very Free And Very Happy

Our Audience, It Has Been A More Difficult Process For Classical Music Audiences Around The World, And I'm Not Completely Certain Why.

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.

Lots Of Really Interesting People Move To U.s And Decide To Work Here, Because Of This Whole Attitude And Openness. I'm Absolutely Convinced That This Is Just The Beginning. In A Couple Decades We Will See An Even More Dramatic Change.

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.

I Don't Believe In An Annual Dose Of Film Music For The Sake Of It Being Film Music. If We Program Film Music, It Will Be Because There Is A Real Artistic Reason For Doing So.