You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.

You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.

I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time.