Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.
As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.
Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire.
I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.
If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.
Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.
One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.
So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.