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"Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do."
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"Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other."
"There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new."
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"In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been."
"I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad."
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