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It's not beyond the possibility that there still could be a YES in 200 years' time... of course with different members, unless the medical profession comes up with something extraordinary.

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.

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization without music. When you realize today that music is such a part of people's lives. And will always be, really.

But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places.

The idea of 'Yes on Broadway' has come up. It would reflect the history of Yes.

As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime.

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.