I Love A Visceral Sound,

I Like This Idea Of Identification With The Local Team. I Think It's Great. That's What An Orchestra Should Be. It's An Orchestra For Its Hometown, And It Serves The People.

In Europe, There Is So Much Tradition, And Everyone Has Established Ideas As To What Art Should Be And What It Has Always Been.

With American Orchestras, In Particular, Because They Play In Such Huge Halls, Getting A True Pianissimo Is Very Hard.

I Think We Still Do Have A Pr Problem In The Sense That These Institutions Portray Themselves Quite Often As A Museum Without The Contemporary Wing. For A Young Cutting-edge Person, Why Would You Get Into That Sort Of Business, Which Is Very Clearly Geared Towards Dead Or Almost Dead People?

There's So Much Energy Exchange [in Conduction], So You Get Back A Lot, Of Course, But You Also Have To Give A Lot. It's Kind Of High-energy Thing.