As a conductor, it's extremely difficult to keep a certain distance from the piece because it's very easy to get carried away.

Mr. Howard wrote the piece to create a picture of the Grand Canyon. When we talked, what instruments did we say he used to do that?

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

Life can be as easy as you wish to make it, or as difficult as you are prepared to believe that it is.

We think it is a very nice way to further develop our relationship with their orchestra and their city.

It's easy to demonize from a distance.