My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.
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An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.
Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.
I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.