There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.
There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.
This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.
This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous.