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Esa-Pekka Salonen

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This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.


— Esa-Pekka Salonen


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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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This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.


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When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.


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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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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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