The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

There was this kind of mildly annoying mythology about conductor Like biker should riding a Harley-Davidson on an LP cover, and wearing a sort of a leather suit.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

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

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

There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.

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