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If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.
You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.
You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.
The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art... →
At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are... →
I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other... →
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements... →
But you can't really know your audiences so well.
I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.
I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.
What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think.
But when you get a bit older, and I hate to use the word, quite a bit more established, people take more notice and conducting becomes a great deal... →
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