He will conduct concerts today and Saturday at the Civic Center Theatre. Lubbock's musicians and Noya must sell themselves to each other. This is a very close-knit industry. One always, in everything we do, must search for excellence, for growth, for expanded repertoire. In music, we have to be sharks, not by destroying, but because so many assume sharks have to keep moving forward.
Orchestras really do.
They must look for challenging situations. That includes scheduling 20th century repertoire. There is very, very accessible music being written. This is not like the 1970s or '80s, when there was a real division between the composer and the audience. Composers today want to be heard.