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

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

I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.

Coming from a sort of very rigid European type of training to this culture which is just a little more open - a lot more open, and kind of curious, and asking different sorts of questions.Because the problem for me was that the European modernist movement in the '70s was all about right or wrong. Some things were right and you were dealing with the truth, as it were, and then some things were wrong and therefore not allowed.

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

As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.