Michael Tilson Thomas Trying Quotations

You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake.

They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.

One of my central maxims is how a major part of what a conductor tries to do is get a large group of people to agree on where "now" actually is.