season, for the last three weeks or so, i can feel the audience is applauding not just for the at, butncee they are saying thanks for all the high points in this terrific season. they are saying, you're batting average was high. that for music director and for a conductor -- i had to be so exposed in this city in order to make use of the situation we had to keep making our results better. thisublic understood continuously, and the interaction with them is so beautiful. it is -- it is not possible in art for everybody to like everything, but it is possible for them to understand what it takes to do it and if it were so easy, any idiot could do it lying down. >> you expect a level of high performance. >> charlie, i'm sorry to interrupt, there is another example that comes to me. what to look for in a singer, people say to me. best in look for the that singer, that individual singer. but when singers audition, i begged them, if they're going to audition, come out on stage, do your thing, and don't spend a moment on whether or not you get this job or not. you have no idea what the people who