fits with your career, because for pretty much a0 years you've been leading, running the budapest festival orchestra, it seems to me, you've done it in a very different way from the more traditional approach of the maestro conductor who imposes his will on an orchestra. that is not your approach, is it? you are more collaborative and, in a funny sort of way, you expect more from your musicians, because you don't just sort of treat them as tools to be used. i think there is a lot of creativity in people, and it's very unfortunate if they have a job playing in an orchestra and all they are asked to is to follow instructions. it limits their potential. and i always thought how wonderful it would be to have an orchestra where the creativity of the individual is encouraged, ratherthan suppressed. do you sometimes wish that classical music was a little less rigid, a little less formal, because you've talked about the dangers of the form becoming too tied to frozen rituals and to an older audience. and ijust wonder whether in the course of your career you believe you've been able to change that a little bi