I See No Reason To

When You Arrive At Your Destination, Pay Absolutely No Attention To The Thing People Call Jetlag.

Raising A Small Child As A Woman While Travelling 10 Months Out Of The Year Would, I Believe, Be Something I Would Not Be Able Or Even Want To Do, Although With The Amazing Example Of Leila, I Am No Longer So Sure.

A Good Example Of How It Must Have Been Is Today's World Of Conducting, Which Is Still Utterly Dominated By Men, And The Prejudice The Few Female Conductors Have To Battle Even Today Is Astounding.

I Had Been Playing Since I Was 2 Years Old, Never Remembering A Life Without Music, Always Playing Everything Naturally And Mostly By Ear, And All The Grownups Wanted Were More Scales And Drudgery Out Of Me.

Music Is Art, Art Is Life, And We Are Who We Are, And All Of These Aforementioned Women, Unless They Should Choose Not To, Will Be Performing Well Into The Next Many Decades Because They Are Great Artists.