there s only about 10% of it that i really enjoy. the music! so. is the 10%! right. so, the 90%, which i guess is about the ritual, the putting on of the dinner suit before the performance, of sort of making the big entrance, all of the grandiosity of it, none of that appeals to your ego? and what certainly doesn t is this idea of power. power is something i don t like. iwould. ..i feel sometimes that the way conductors work with musicians is that, i tell you what to do, this sort of thing, urgh. ..it doesn t appeal to me.
him though, do you? no, thank - goodness! no red handkerchief or a dinner suit, we put big productions on, we tour arenas and concert halls and theatres all over the world and now with lorraine crosby who just saw, the lovely lorraine, it is lovely to keep these songs alive because that is what we re trying to do, not take anything away from meat loaf andjim do, not take anything away from meat loaf and jim steinman, just trying to show people what these songs sound like live and when we put the orchestra in, itjust unbelievable. they are just made for big stages and ijust love doing it, yes, it would not want to do anything else. meat loaf it said quite a few years ago i have never been hip or call it, just write. in has not mattered though, has it? it has not mattered if he has been cool or not. he though, has it? it has not mattered if he has been cool or not.- if he has been cool or not. he has ust been if he has been cool or not. he has just been himself if he has been cool or
the music! so. is the 10%! right. so, the 90%, which i guess is about the ritual, the putting on of the dinner suit before the performance, of sort of making the big entrance, all of the grandiosity of it, none of that appeals to your ego? and what certainly doesn t is this idea of power. power is something i don t like. iwould. ..i feel sometimes that the way conductors work with musicians is that, i tell you what to do, this sort of thing, urgh. ..it doesn t appeal to me. and sometimes when i saw
and later i visited his class in this music academy in vienna, and there was a wonderful teacher and i thought, maybe i should try too . and then we have a sister who is a psychologist, because, with two conductors, you need one! let me ask you also about something you said once, 90% of what a conductor does, you said, i don t even like, there s only about 10% of it that i really enjoy. the music! so. ..is the io%! right. so, the 90%, which i guess is about the ritual, the putting on of the dinner suit before the performance, of sort of making the big entrance, all of the grandiosity of it, none of that appeals to your ego? and what certainly doesn t is this idea of power. power is something i don t like.
you said, i don t even like, there s only about 10% of it that i really enjoy. the music! so. is the 10%! right. so, the 90%, which i guess is about the ritual, the putting on of the dinner suit before the performance, of sort of making the big entrance, all of the grandiosity of it, none of that appeals to your ego? and what certainly doesn t is this idea of power. power is something i don t like. iwould. ..i feel sometimes that the way conductors work with musicians is that, i tell you what to do, this sort of thing, urgh. ..it doesn t appeal to me.