Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the hero that had been the composer, the hero now was the performer, and especially the conductor.

In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.

Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and you never see anybody. It's a very different sort of metabolic.

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

Orphei Drängar possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess.

There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.

The biggest difference between U.S and most European big cities is that in a place like London, for instance, there are five orchestras, and there's a bloody competition between these five orchestras.