It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home.

I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.

All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.

The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.

If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.

We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.