And If You Are Strong

Since The Composer Has Said Everything, If You Discover Everything, It Will Be Enough And You Will Be A Happy Man. Don't Try To Say It's Your Taste, And Because Of That You Are Changing This Or That. And I Must Say This Respect Is Still There.

You Know As I Started As A Shy Young Conductor, I Always Wanted To Cooperate. To Build Up The Musicians. To Help Them To Be Better Than Without A Conductor. And Sometimes Young Talented Musicians Have To Be Encouraged.

At The Age Of 16, Something Happened With My Finger And The Doctor Told Me, You Never Can Be A Organist Or Pianist, So Think About What You Do With Music.

And I Always Tried To Be Not A Star. To Be Someone Who People Like To Talk To.

Very Often, If I Know The Orchestra Doesn't Know A Piece Or It's A New Piece, I Have Main Ideas About It. But Then We Start To Play And I Never Talk About Places Where They Played So Beautiful And So Clear In The Beginning That There Is Nothing To Say.