GETTING your rocks off

In many cases the oil is dripping out of those rocks.

One of the principal differences between the work that I have done at other places, either as a guest conductor or as a music director, and that of St. Louis is that I feel the biggest potential we have here is that we play the music with the type of emotional understanding that few other orchestras match. So while we're trying to come as close to technical perfection as human beings can, what we're really working on is trying to get the raison d'etre , the reason for being, of that music.

the real relationship … to actually be in St. Louis and start to really make the music with people.

It's unexpected revenue, because people are just doing what they were always doing. It's not like a whole new market opened up. There's no behavioral change. It's just more money.

We are very much in listening mode and we are keen to hear what people think of these proposals.