Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy.
From Jeffrey Tate
If people had told me that I would have the stamina to conduct 'Ring Cycles,' I would have been amazed. I still am.
Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists.
I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle, puts me totally off.
I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.
On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.
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