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We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.

So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary.

I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

The thing about making a musical is that you can and will be replaceable really quickly.

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

I kept thinking, 'How do you make a modern musical?' Then it became clear that I could do it just like a small indie art-house movie, very naturalistically. I could create a world where it's o.k. to break into song, without an orchestra coming up out of nowhere.

Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.