The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.
You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.
It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.
Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
That was my first love growing up - classical orchestral music, especially Impressionism.
New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
The symphonies are the things that, as a soloist, I've not gotten to play. I used to travel the world playing concertos, and then I would sit and listen to the symphony.