Those are a lot of tough questions. The question is: Can you make lemonade out of these lemons?

They basically to say this is my wish list, but this what we have to have.

I like the friendliness and the folks you meet.

We can't anticipate what the next call will be.

When the club in Hudson closed, we decided it was time to move on to other clubs. We live in Red Hook, so the distance is the same.

I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of his musical language and the huge time spans in which his ideas develop, to Mahler, with his hysteria and self-indulgence.