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.
If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.
I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.
There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.
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?