Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.

I think we are in the process of getting the word out, and we haven't done very well yet. But we are trying.

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

We're not talking about an elite art form from the price point of view. We have a building in L.A. that is incredibly open, exciting, inviting, and all that, and there's no reason for this music not to be part of everybody's everyday life.

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

There's so much energy exchange [in conduction], so you get back a lot, of course, but you also have to give a lot. It's kind of high-energy thing.