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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.

Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.

The music scene is more competitive in the States.

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

Country music belongs to America.

In America, music is more tightly categorized.

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.

I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.