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Esa-Pekka Salonen

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Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.


— Esa-Pekka Salonen


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The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.


— Esa-Pekka Salonen


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The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.


— Esa-Pekka Salonen


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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.


— Esa-Pekka Salonen


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The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.


— Esa-Pekka Salonen


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The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.


— Esa-Pekka Salonen


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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.


— Esa-Pekka Salonen


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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.


— Esa-Pekka Salonen


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There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.


— Esa-Pekka Salonen


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There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.


— Esa-Pekka Salonen


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Did you know about Esa-Pekka Salonen?

Salonen later took the orchestra on many other tours of the United States Europe and Asia and residencies at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland The Proms in London in Cologne for a festival of Salonen's own works and perhaps most notably in 1996 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris for a Stravinsky festival conducted by Salonen and Pierre Boulez; it was during this Paris residency that key Philharmonic board members heard the orchestra perform in improved acoustics and were re-invigorated to lead fundraising efforts to complete construction of Walt Disney Concert Hall. auf den ersten blick und ohne zu wissen. " As a European Modernist Salonen said he had been inculcated with negatives such as to avoid melody harmonic identity and rhythmic pulse.

He is currently Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and Conductor Laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

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