It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.

The classical music world is so snobbish.

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.

Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.