I Think We Are In

I Can't Imagine How Many First Performances I've Done, Perhaps 500. Some Of Them Have Been Very Good, And Some Of Course Very Bad.

I Actually Don't Like This Term, "classic." It's Wrong, But We Don't Have A Better Word At The Moment.

There Was This Kind Of Mildly Annoying Mythology About Conductor Like Biker Should Riding A Harley-davidson On An Lp Cover, And Wearing A Sort Of A Leather Suit.

If Somebody Had Told Me When I Was Starting Composition In Helsinki In The '70s That I Would End Up In L.a. And To Describe That Journey, Those 17 Years With The Philharmonic And Building The Hall And This And That, I Would Have Said, "this Is A Fairy Tale Of The First Order."

My Music Wouldn't Sound The Way It Does If I Hadn't Had The Experience Of Conducting.