avery fisher hall becoming david -- >> it's no longer avery fisher hall.hall is going to be completely renovated and it's going to be a very interested time shall we say for the new york philharmonic. >> rose: they'll be on the road. >> -- for possibly more years. the orchestra very practically speaking is going to have to find places to play during this renovation period and we'll have to work on continuing to function as an orchestra but also have it's connections to the audience. i'm very excited about the announcement and i think it's right for one person to see this process through from beginning to end. and so you know as much as i love the orchestra and powerful as i feel the connection still is with the orchestra, it seemed like the logical time. it sounds like clinical but it just felt like if i had, tended even a year or two longer, then it would have been inevitable. it would have been a much longer span of time. and i'm looking forward to, we were talking about opera, doing more opera. ry useful way for me to bring many elements together. which

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