It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for a week.
It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.
Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.
With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.
My material life is simple.
I studied music since I was four years old, and from that moment I became part of a family. And that family has taught me things; not only musical things, but things I have to face in life, and that is where the success of the system lies