 He has also served as artistic director and conductor of the Ojai and Cabrillo Music Festivals in California.He has conducted orchestras around the world, including the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, performing pieces by composers as diverse as Debussy, Copland, Stravinsky, Haydn, Reich, Zappa, and Wagner, as well as his own works.He completed his second opera, "The Death of Klinghoffer", in 1991, again working with librettist Alice Goodman and director Peter Sellars.