his interview , which ran in the august 2002 issue of classical essence magazine , featured the writing of a man never before prone to effusive praise of any kind , but which included this passage as part of its conclusion : it happens only a scant handful of times every two or three centuries or so : the natural but very rare confluence of supreme creative talent , a supportive , disciplined , uplifting environment , great patience and resolve , an intense desire to excel , and the adequate niche in time or , for the purposes of our analogy , vessel , into which all these may flow together like a pure spring river , to mix completely and gelnot into something hard and unyielding , but alive , free , simple , suppleand astonishingly brilliant .