In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.

When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.

In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.

Music is a fundamental human right

For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different.

I have eaten very well in Los Angeles. Marvelously!

You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly.