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This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.
This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.
When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.
With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.
I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real... →
If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our... →
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... →
The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things... →
The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely... →
The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying... →
This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form... →
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