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

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 actually don't like this term, "classic." It's wrong, but we don't have a better word at the moment.

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.

Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers, supporting new ideas, supporting new ways of getting the message across.

There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.