He performed with us during our Rodgers and Hammerstein program.

It’s a delightfully charming work.

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?

We think it is a very nice way to further develop our relationship with their orchestra and their city.

Four or five times during a performance of this piece, it is almost impossible to control oneself. I mean for the audience and for the performers. It is such a dramatic and moving piece.

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

She is really as dynamic a soloist as is possible to engage. I love working with Jan because I have the sense there is nothing that is impossible for her to do musically.

He’ll be singing in his upper register to give the idea of what it means to be roasted on a spit.