But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.
However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.
I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.
I like to stay home and listen to recordings.