#t

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#clarity #emphasis #layers #orchestras #precision

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

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#harmony #his #masterly #only #precisely

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

#air #arms #being #charge #conducting

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

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#hear #i #kind #music #myself

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

#idea #more #new #new things #northern

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

#festival #hall #hang #i #i think

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

#continuous #faster #happening #music #northern

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#decade #greed #intriguing #paradox

There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#coast #east #east coast #find #first

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

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#one thing #people #specialized #such #suspicion