When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.
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When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.
Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.
The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.
Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. I still record a lot of hours, but I don't go as long as I used to.
I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.
I've never been ambitious about recording.
When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.
I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.
I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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