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Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#course #first #get #higher #hill

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 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

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

#composing #conducting #haven #i #never

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

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#conducting #experience #happened #i #international

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

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#bad #coast #country #cultural #especially

With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#because #getting #halls #hard #huge