I think we are in the process of getting the word out, and we haven't done very well yet. But we are trying.

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

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

Conducting is intensely social. You work with a hundred people every day. You collaborate, you try to focus their thoughts, you try to give them a concept, you try to inspire them, and it's actually exhausting.

Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and you never see anybody. It's a very different sort of metabolic.

I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.

Of course, if you think of a European or American household in the '50s, so what were the things that when people started climbing up the ladder, what did they buy? A fridge, a TV, I think piano was the number three item in say '53 or '54.