I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.
“My whole career I have worked with non-Western musicians and different orchestras and ensembles and choirs.”
“I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.”