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

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

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

The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.

I went to work one morning, and outside my door was Cindy Crawford in a black bra, and I thought that very clearly the building is making progress in integrating itself into various layers of our culture.

This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it is to be a composer who conducts rather than the other way around.