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Los Angeles Is A Very Special City. It's A Great Ethnic Mix, A Great Cultural Mix.

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.

In My Imagination Yes, I Remember, When I Was Six Years Old, I Was Conducting All This Concert In My House. But Now It's Real.

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

It's A Physical Challenge. It's A Spiritual Challenge. I'm Studying Almost Every Day A Different Symphony, Not Returning To Any One For A Week.