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

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

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

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

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

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

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