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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.
I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of his musical language and the huge time spans in which his ideas develop, to Mahler, with his hysteria and self-indulgence.
I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.
In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep.
If people had told me that I would have the stamina to conduct 'Ring Cycles,' I would have been amazed. I still am.
Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy.
Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.
