I Think We Are In The Process

There Will Have To Be Times When I'm Not Conducting Because I'm Composing. I Haven't Solved That Problem, And Perhaps I Never Will.

Pulse As An Active Means Of Expression, Stravinsky And Beethoven Are The Two Masters Of That.

Conducting Was Just Something That Happened By Fluke.

Classic Music Somehow Changed, And It Changed Between The First And The Second World Wars, And Somehow What Happened Was That The Hero That Had Been The Composer, The Hero Now Was The Performer, And Especially The Conductor.

The Underlying Process In Northern Music Tends To Be Slower And Continuous, Whatever's Happening On The Surface; In Southern Music The Underlying Process Is Always Faster.