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

Its just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.

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

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.

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

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.

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.