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For Me To Rehearse With A Children's Orchestra A Mahler Symphony Was To Really Work. We Had Three Or Four Weeks Of Rehearsal With The Orchestra, Every Day Eight Or Nine Hours, Putting The First Together. I Had Been Conducting Tchaikovsky A Lot And Beethoven, But Mahler Was Different.

I Love To Read Different Books On Completely Different Subjects At The Same Time. I Cannot Focus On One. I Read A Few Pages Of Literature, Then I Jump To Philosophy And At The Same Time I'm Reading Biographies Of Mahler.

It's Not That People Don't Like Classical Music. It's That They Don't Have The Chance To Understand And To Experience It.

I Set Out To Create A Means Whereby Music Could Be A Way Of Vindicating The Rights Of The Masses.

Classical Music In Venezuela Is Now Something Like A Pop Concert. You Can See People Screaming Or Crying Because They Don't Have A Ticket.