I'm Still Disturbed If A Chord Isn't

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

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

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.

If You Think Of The History, In The Days Of Brahms And Beethoven And All These Guys, Almost Every Concert Was A New Music Concert. To Play Something Old Was Really An Exception.

This Conducting Thing Happened. In 1983 I Was Sucked Into This International Career, Which Was A Very Scary Experience.