I Wanted To Play My Violin And

For Me To Rehearse With A Children's Orchestra A Mahler Symphony Was To Really Work. We Had Three Or Four Weeks Of Rehearsal With The Orchestra, Every Day Eight Or Nine Hours, Putting The First Together. I Had Been Conducting Tchaikovsky A Lot And Beethoven, But Mahler Was Different.

In My Imagination Yes, I Remember, When I Was Six Years Old, I Was Conducting All This Concert In My House. But Now It's Real.

I Think It's A Very Important Collaboration Between The Conductor And The Orchestra - Especially When The Conductor Is One More Member Of The Orchestra In The Way That You Are Leading, But Also Respecting, Feeling And Building The Same Way For All The Players To Understand The Music.

Los Angeles Is A Very Special City. It's A Great Ethnic Mix, A Great Cultural Mix.

My Material Life Is Simple.