1.   Crowds at Alice Tully Hall indicated an audience hungry for new slants on old repertory.

2.   Great conductors are not in such abundance nor are innovative productions that bring life to old repertory.

3.   Klezmer revivalists have maintained the old repertory without shielding it from outside influences.

4.   Since then, he has played virtually nothing but the Tchaikovsky First, and has shown little inclination to recapture his old repertory, let alone extend it.

5.   Working with musicologists around the world, his staff prepares reams of old repertory, much of it untouched for centuries, for venturesome performers.

6.   Yet keeping the old repertory fresh is not easy.