Taste is changing, style is changing, and players abilities are changing.

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?

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

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

I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

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