It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

The classical music world is so snobbish.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

I listen mostly to classical music.

Robert Kapilow is a born teacher, an enthusiast who can think on his feet, a 110 percent believer in the project at hand ... It’s a cheering thought that this kind of missionary enterprise did not pass from this earth with Leonard Bernstein. Robert Kapilow is awfully good at what he does. We need him.