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.
“A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.”
“Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.”