I Can't Imagine How Many

Lots Of Really Interesting People Move To U.s And Decide To Work Here, Because Of This Whole Attitude And Openness. I'm Absolutely Convinced That This Is Just The Beginning. In A Couple Decades We Will See An Even More Dramatic Change.

Coming From A Sort Of Very Rigid European Type Of Training To This Culture Which Is Just A Little More Open - A Lot More Open, And Kind Of Curious, And Asking Different Sorts Of Questions.because The Problem For Me Was That The European Modernist Movement In The '70s Was All About Right Or Wrong. Some Things Were Right And You Were Dealing With The Truth, As It Were, And Then Some Things Were Wrong And Therefore Not Allowed.

Once You Get Over The First Hill, There Is Always A New, Higher One Lurking, Of Course.

I Always Felt That One Day I Would Have To Make The Change In My Own Life, Bite The Bullet And See What It Is To Be A Composer Who Conducts Rather Than The Other Way Around.

The Act Of Conducting In Itself, Of Waving My Arms In The Air And Being In Charge, I Didn't Miss. I Missed The Sensual Pleasure Of Being In Contact With Music.