I was different from most young conductors today.
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I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.
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And I love the organ because I grew up in a small city, the organ was the major instrument in church which impressed me very strongly.
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And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.
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An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.
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Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.
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