There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

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

Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.

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

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.