One of the things that has made me who I am…

It’s been an amazing partnership right from the start.  It’s one of those things that lives on, and so to some extent, although I won’t have the regular rendezvous on the stage of Powell Hall, I can’t think of the experience with the orchestra in the past tense because it’s a living thing, it’s one of the things that has made me who I am, and so you carry that around with you all the time.  There was this immediate chemistry, and then it developed into something which has meant a thirteen-year music directorship where you can argue who’s been blessed the most by this, whether it’s been the musicians, the community, or myself… it’s just been an amazing, amazing thing.