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

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

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.

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

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?

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