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

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

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

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.

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.