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Esa-Pekka Salonen

"This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous."

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"This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous."

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