Every couple weeks I'll listen to Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, just to check in, to see how it's doing. It's doing OK.
The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.
I think my generation is a lost generation in a way.
Because I had been in conservatory for so long, I was jealous of my friends in bands.
I'm trying to phase out my availability on the phone. People call you when you're walking down the street and say the most random stuff.
With chamber music you can get people who work on the music for months, rehearsing it every day for a couple of hours, and if they get it in a different way than you do, which is entirely possible, it's not as a result of anything other than their good musicianship.