Music Has Just As Much To Do

With American Orchestras, In Particular, Because They Play In Such Huge Halls, Getting A True Pianissimo Is Very Hard.

This Country, And The West Coast, Especially, Is Bad At Preserving Any Cultural Legacy.

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.

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

I'm Trying To Conduct Only Five Months A Year, And The Rest Will Be Composing Time. I'm Trying To Spend As Much As I Can Out Of Those Months Here In L.a., Because For Creative Work, This Is A Fantastic Place.