his name is ricardo muti like me. and he works like me. he talks like me. and this come from my family. i had parents very, with great discipline. and teachers with great discipline. so i was trained to-- but out of the podium i think that i, people know me very well, i am a different person. of course on the podium i cannot be a buffoon. and i don't ask with a big smile asking for a favor. i have an idea. and if i have the idea and i have spent month its, years, sometimes decades on this idea, and when i go in front of the organize tra, i have to try to-- orchestra, i have to try to make, to realize. a violinist or pianist, they are lucky. i mean it's a much more difficult profession in the end in front of the public because they have to produce the sound. we are lucky because the sound is produced by others. so many times when we make a mistake, the musicians realize immediately that you have made a mistake. the public doesn't. so you have always the possibility to blame somebody else. a violinist or a pianist or cellist, they, or a trumpet, they have to

. >> rose: master ricardo muti is here, one of the world's great conductors. he has lead some of the best orchestras including the vienna philharmonic, he is currently music director of the chicago symphony orchestra, critics and audiences alike have been dazzled and charmed by the intensity, the technique, the emotion that he and his musicians bring. here is a look at a performance of verdi's requiem. >> when you look at the journey of your life, from the violin, piano, goesing, conducting, is that the perfect sign of flow for someone who wants to lead a great orchestra? >> first i didn't want to be a musician. so the first quality, i mean the first, if you don't want something and you get it. and but i studied very seriously but fortunately-- . >> rose: what did you want to be, do. >> first my father was a medical doctor. we are five brothers. and he wanted one to be a doctor, one to be an architect, one to-- my profession was opposed to become a lawyer, that would have been a disaster, total disaster. so for reasons that are too long to explain, i became a