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?
We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.
Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.
I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.
If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.