My Material Life Is Simple.

The Challenge Is Not So Much To Change The Sound. The Challenge Is To Connect And To Create Something Special.

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.

I Think That I Need To Learn A Lot, A Lot.

Whenever I Listen To A Children's Orchestra, I Learn. They Feel Everything, They Enjoy Everything, They Have Amazing Energy.