What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.

One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.