Dennis saw our Web site, and doo-wop music is a hot commodity on the East Coast. With our contract, Collectables will license, manufacture, advertise, promote and distribute the album. We then get a percentage of every piece sold.

A "scream" is always just that-a noise and not music.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

I think the popular music has gone truly weird. It's either cutesy-wutesy or it's hard, nasty stuff. It's good that this has life again with the youth.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

Steven is such an asset to this orchestra. Because he and I view so many aspects of music-making the same, it makes it easy for us. When I'm asking for a particular sound, he knows what I mean and he's able to communicate it technically to the string players. Steven has really helped me tremendously in our effort to make the Tucson Symphony strings sound like a major orchestra.