There was this kind of mildly annoying mythology about conductor Like biker should riding a Harley-Davidson on an LP cover, and wearing a sort of a leather suit.

Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.

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.

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

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

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.