The relationship found its rhythm. He began to rely on me for ideas of where music could express ideas that he wanted to achieve.

I have been here for only a week and seen the way things work. I am going to have ideas of what I would like to do, but that will be sometime coming.

Being a man of very few ideas, he cherished those he had with an exaggerated care.

Sadly, these Republican legislators have no ideas, and they resort to cheap political shenanigans in an election year. The fact is that the governor is following the same discretionary hiring practices that previous governors -- Democrats and Republicans -- have used to implement policies and support their initiatives.

[But, he says,] I listened to the Grieg and said, 'OK, that's great music' and never listened to it again. ... but they are not direct. I consciously decided what comes out, comes out.

I would go into synagogues and talk to people before that concert and they would say, 'Oh, the pope and the Catholic Church -- you know what they did to us at the Holocaust and ... after that concert -- Wow. I would go out after that concert and people were astonished.