You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
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I come from a musical kind of family.
Imagine if you grew up in a place where your lineage was there for a hundred years, and part of the culture was to play music 50 percent of the time. You'd probably have a lot of musicians in your family too.
But I could not imagine having a child and the child not having a relationship with music that opens up their mind and their imagination and teaches them things.
I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.
The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.
The study of music was a family interest.
For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.
Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child.
Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother's father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father's mother was the head of the Vienna Conservatory's piano department. It all canceled out in my case. I'm completely hopeless in music.
I'm not from a music family at all.