it's with the detroit symphony. always wants a pin in some trouble of. the one instrumentalist take his in with yes how do you practice in a room well it takes a lot of planning beforehand i have to say it is a mozart concerto but this was the cadenza written by beethoven for the month of concerto so. it was based over music i think actually we have that yes but come back to your to your question a lot of it happens in the in the mind i mean i prefer 11 does practice with the instrument by visualizing bye bye bye bye thinking about music. imagining it and soul actually it's differently possible ok i'm very we have a lot of time i just want to ask you quickly about i hope because you're in why. well why beethoven i don't know it's just it just music that i suppose i'm not the only one by and by no means it grabs you it's music that is so existing powerful so i mean whatever words i use it will seem silly because the music i think i might be described as if you use the right words it cannot be described cannot be described but something about it just grabb

another conductor, a gentleman named leonard slatkin who's the music director laureate for the detroit symphonyrchestra and is alive. [ laughter ] i said sympathy -- symphony orchestra. apparently he was just as surprised as anyone to find out he'd passed away. we tracked him down. he's in ireland right now. and joining us live, i think, please welcome the newly resurrected leonard slatkin. hello, leonard. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you very much. i'm very happy to be here. >> jimmy: now, i guess my first question is are you dead right now? >> some people might wish that. especially my conductor colleagues. but no. i was really quite stumped to learn that in giving their best to andre preff iprechb they wou have giving their worst to me. >> jimmy: where were you when you found out you'd passed away? >> i woke up about 4:00 in the morning in ireland and i got up to follow the baseball scores because that's one of my passions and i turned on the computer and all of a sudden i see oh, i know andre was gone a few months ago and apparently now me too. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: was anyone worried