There Will Have To Be Times When

The Underlying Process In Northern Music Tends To Be Slower And Continuous, Whatever's Happening On The Surface; In Southern Music The Underlying Process Is Always Faster.

You Know, In Some Ways Conducting Is Counter-intuitive. It's Like Winter Driving In Finland - If You Skid, The Natural Reaction Is To Fight With The Wheel And Jam On The Brakes, Which Is The Quickest Way To Get Killed. What You Have To Do Is Let Go, And The Car Will Right Itself. It's The Same When An Orchestra Loses Its Ensemble. You Have To Resist The Temptation To Semaphore, And Let The Orchestra Find Its Own Way Back To The Pulse.

Pulse As An Active Means Of Expression, Stravinsky And Beethoven Are The Two Masters Of That.

The Players Never Think They Project Enough. In A Hall That Seats 3,300 People, It's A Very Scary Thing To Play So Quietly That You Can Barely Hear Yourself.

We're Dealing With Music That Is Being Played By Traditional Instruments In A Specifically Built Building Called A Concert Hall. But Classical Is Not - The Reference Is Wrong, Because Classical On One Hand Refers To One Period In Musical History, Which Is Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven, Which Is A Fine Period In Musical History, But It Was A While Ago.on The Other Hand, It Sort Of Alludes To Some Kind Of "class," Which A, Is Not True; B, Is Kind Of Detrimental To The Whole Idea. Because The Point Is That This Music Is Available And It's Actually Relatively Reasonably Priced.