I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.
Yo-Yo Ma
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and... →
A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a... →
Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all... →
The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of... →
Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will... →
What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes... →
In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always... →
Lorin Maazel
I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The... →