I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.

I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.

After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.

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

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.

If you think of the history, in the days of Brahms and Beethoven and all these guys, almost every concert was a new music concert. To play something old was really an exception.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.