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

But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do.

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

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.

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

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.