After 30 Years I Have Realized The

I Like This Idea Of Identification With The Local Team. I Think It's Great. That's What An Orchestra Should Be. It's An Orchestra For Its Hometown, And It Serves The People.

I Started Conducting Lessons And I Realized That This Is Actually Something I Like Doing.

In Europe, There Is So Much Tradition, And Everyone Has Established Ideas As To What Art Should Be And What It Has Always Been.

I Realized That The European Dogma Is Not Necessarily The Only Way To Look At Things.

I Always Felt That One Day I Would Have To Make The Change In My Own Life, Bite The Bullet And See What It Is To Be A Composer Who Conducts Rather Than The Other Way Around.