Taste is changing, style is changing, and players' abilities are changing.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music – not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

So I’ve never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

We don’t want other people poking into our artistic pie.

I just wish, maybe, that I’d started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don’t really have any regrets. Is that bad?

I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad?

Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire.

This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously.

So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.