I Was Starting A Group Of Musicians

I Always Had, Deep Down, A Slight Aversion Toward The Purely Cerebral In Music.

My Music Wouldn't Sound The Way It Does If I Hadn't Had The Experience Of Conducting.

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.

We Need New Art. Old Art Cannot Do That. It Can Do Lots Of Other Things, And Of Course Humanity Hasn't Changed That Much In The Last Thousand Or Two Thousand Years.so That The Old Greek Dramas Are Still At The Very Heart, Core, Of Human Experience, But Still We Need New Stuff.

I Was Starting A Group Of Musicians And We Had A Group Of Young Composers In Finland Back In The '70s, And The Real Conductors, The Professional Conductors At The Time Were Not Interested In Our Stuff.