If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.
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?
As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.
There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.
I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.