symphony 0rchestra music and was performed by the royal philharmonic orchestra with me conducting in abbey roadat's how i began and moved into the world of symphony and classical music. by then, you had taught yourself to read music? yes, indeed. until now, i still study, but i have taught myself music. i have never been to any music school. i play several instruments, when i used to busk, of course, and from then on, i taught myself every particular aspect of the music and understand the instruments, their capacity, what are they able to do, what their ranges are, etc. so i did a lot of study. you cannotjust do these things on a whim. absolutely not. symphony plays. how would you describe your conducting style? the only way i can describe it is what the critics at the time wrote about me. once i conducted sir algar�*s enigma variation with the london philharmonic orchestra and the london symphony at the royal festival hall, and there was some mockery of who is this guy coming and conducting one of our most noble symphony orchestras? but some of them, actually, the kinder person said that your