I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

Conducting is more difficult than playing a single instrument. You have to know the culture, to know the score, and to project what you want to hear. Some conductors are well prepared but cannot transmit their ideas to an orchestra, and others are good communicators but have nothing to transmit because they are not absorbed enough in the score.

The most difficult problem in conducting is intonation. You must know what is wrong and how to correct it.

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