If I Were In A Position To

I'm Composing More Than Before. I'm Cutting Down On Conducting.

I Always Had, Deep Down, A Slight Aversion Toward The Purely Cerebral In Music.

We're Not Talking About An Elite Art Form From The Price Point Of View. We Have A Building In L.a. That Is Incredibly Open, Exciting, Inviting, And All That, And There's No Reason For This Music Not To Be Part Of Everybody's Everyday Life.

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.