Neville Marriner

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.

I don't like to get in front of people.

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.

Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape.