I Realized That The European Dogma Is

Music Has Just As Much To Do With Movement And Body As It Does Soul And Intellect.

I Feel That This Is My Artistic Home, And I'm Very Happy To Be A California Artist Together With Many Others Who Are Not From Here Originally But Who Decided To Make This The Center Of Their Activities. There's Something About That That I Find Very Inspiring And Satisfying.

Conducting Is Intensely Social. You Work With A Hundred People Every Day. You Collaborate, You Try To Focus Their Thoughts, You Try To Give Them A Concept, You Try To Inspire Them, And It's Actually Exhausting.

Sometimes You Spend Nine Months, 10 Months, A Year Writing A Piece That You Will Hear Two Years Later Or Something Like That, And You Never See Anybody. It's A Very Different Sort Of Metabolic.

Conducting Was Just Something That Happened By Fluke.