Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.

There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

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

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.

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.