Ch. 1. Beginnings -- ch. 2. A young musician -- ch. 3. On my own -- ch. 4. Seize the day -- ch. 5. The New York Philharmonic -- ch. 6. Are you Jewish? -- ch. 7. A music director in Texas I -- ch. 8. Opera and music theater -- ch. 9. Composers and new music -- ch. 10. A music director in Texas II -- ch. 11. Kansas city : the roads taken -- ch. 12. The academic life -- ch. 13. American music : the re-creations -- ch. 14. On the road -- ch. 15. The road ahead, the academic life II
