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

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

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

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

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

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

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.