Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth.

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.