Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad?

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.