Music is a performance and needs the audience.
When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.
Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.
Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.
I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.