In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.
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I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.
When I played my first concert with an orchestra, I was eight years old in Berlin.
I've been lucky to conduct the very best orchestras in the world: New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Berlin, the London Philharmonic.
I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.
The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.
I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.
My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.
I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.
Playing in an orchestra is where I learned the most about music.
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