“It seems to me it is a responsibility, not only to listen to records, but to read-to know, for example, who sang the first Don Giovanni, and what that choice meant to Mozart, or for what kind of piano with what peddle action Schubert composed. Or to go to the library to read about Bernstein’s Mass to know what the composer was thinking and what context the work grew from. But you’d be surprised how many students don’t use libraries. I know if I hadn’t had a passion to find out things and hadn’t checked out records by the dozen when I was young, I would not be the person I am today.”