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.

If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.

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

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

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.

Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.

Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.