Mr. Howard wrote the piece to create a picture of the Grand Canyon. When we talked, what instruments did we say he used to do that?

As a conductor, it's extremely difficult to keep a certain distance from the piece because it's very easy to get carried away.

In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.

It's not at all naturally human to see something like the Grand Canyon as beautiful.

There has always been opposition to these types of things. When Theodore Roosevelt declared the Grand Canyon as a national monument [it later was made a national park], my family was among the objectors. Now everybody claims on behalf of their ancestors that they encouraged it. These are places of enormous and enduring value.

You can't say you're going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon.