A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns