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.

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

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

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

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.

We're not talking about an elite art form from the price point of view. We have a building in L.A. that is incredibly open, exciting, inviting, and all that, and there's no reason for this music not to be part of everybody's everyday life.