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But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be... →
But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many... →
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music... →
But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of... →
But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it... →
If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space.... →
It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving... →
The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and... →
The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which... →
They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are... →
When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from... →