As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always.

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.

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

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.

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.