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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.

This Conducting Thing Happened. In 1983 I Was Sucked Into This International Career, Which Was A Very Scary Experience.

There Is Such A Suspicion In Today's World Of People Who Do More Than One Thing, Who Aren't Specialized.

We're Dealing With Music That Is Being Played By Traditional Instruments In A Specifically Built Building Called A Concert Hall. But Classical Is Not - The Reference Is Wrong, Because Classical On One Hand Refers To One Period In Musical History, Which Is Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven, Which Is A Fine Period In Musical History, But It Was A While Ago.on The Other Hand, It Sort Of Alludes To Some Kind Of "class," Which A, Is Not True; B, Is Kind Of Detrimental To The Whole Idea. Because The Point Is That This Music Is Available And It's Actually Relatively Reasonably Priced.

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