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Esa-Pekka Salonen

"The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat."

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"The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat."

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"The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about."

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"Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it."

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"It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it."

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