When You Play Mozart, It's So Clean,

A Friend Gave Me A Cd Of The 'pathetique' Symphony As A Christmas Present. I Went Home, And I Put On The Cd Expecting To Listen To Tchaikovsky. But It Started 'ta Ta Ta Taaa.' It Was Too Long For Me. I Didn't Understand It At First, But Then I Fell In Love, In Love, In Love.

I Think That I Need To Learn A Lot, A Lot.

For Me To Rehearse With A Children's Orchestra A Mahler Symphony Was To Really Work. We Had Three Or Four Weeks Of Rehearsal With The Orchestra, Every Day Eight Or Nine Hours, Putting The First Together. I Had Been Conducting Tchaikovsky A Lot And Beethoven, But Mahler Was Different.

The Challenge Is Not So Much To Change The Sound. The Challenge Is To Connect And To Create Something Special.

Classical Music In Venezuela Is Now Something Like A Pop Concert. You Can See People Screaming Or Crying Because They Don't Have A Ticket.