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.

If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.

There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack of prejudice and the lack of generally accepted norms as to what art should be and how an artist's career should go and all that.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.