Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore.
“I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing.”
“The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.”