I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.

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

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

I actually don't like this term, "classic." It's wrong, but we don't have a better word at the moment.

I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.

Of course performing talent, that's clear. Maybe this is not so well-known among young people who are interested in music, who are talented in music, but they're trying to figure out how to go about it.

There's so much energy exchange [in conduction], so you get back a lot, of course, but you also have to give a lot. It's kind of high-energy thing.