I Feel Very Free And Very Happy

I'm Composing More Than Before. I'm Cutting Down On Conducting.

I Think We Still Do Have A Pr Problem In The Sense That These Institutions Portray Themselves Quite Often As A Museum Without The Contemporary Wing. For A Young Cutting-edge Person, Why Would You Get Into That Sort Of Business, Which Is Very Clearly Geared Towards Dead Or Almost Dead People?

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 Country, And The West Coast, Especially, Is Bad At Preserving Any Cultural Legacy.

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