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Esa-Pekka Salonen

"Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall."

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"Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall."

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"In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been."
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"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
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"I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad."
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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 underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster."
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"The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius."
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"Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect."
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"Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that."
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"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
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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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