Politics have a great effect on our lives here. Too many Israelis who survived the Holocaust still hear that music in their nightmares and a younger generation holds it as a symbol of the theology of the Third Reich. The political realities of the Middle East become extremely important when we travel abroad. If you do not yet control your instrument, continue studying before you audition. And then listen to sound, to style and to artistry.
Technicians are everywhere but artists are few.
I have concluded toward the end of my career that sometimes our ego gets in the way. We are, after all, servants of a God-given talent and interpreters of works composed by geniuses. Leave your ego out of music. Tell me about that performance. The setting was a tent on the terrace in the garden of the President's Mansion.