The classical music industry, has been an industry of covers. So we do covers, and if I compare this with the rock and pop side, what is the most exciting event?

I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.

This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.

Of course, if you think of a European or American household in the '50s, so what were the things that when people started climbing up the ladder, what did they buy? A fridge, a TV, I think piano was the number three item in say '53 or '54.

There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.