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Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Finnish Musician
Born: Jun 30, 1958
Always Because Conducting Music People You
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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
Music Whatever Faster Slower Tends Underlying Always Surface Continuous Southern Northern Happening Process
There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized. Esa-Pekka Salonen
Today People World One Thing More Than Suspicion Who Specialized Thing
I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music. Esa-Pekka Salonen
Music Down Slight Purely Had Toward Always Cerebral Aversion Deep Deep Down
The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself. Esa-Pekka Salonen
Music Myself Out Kind Days Hear Want Turn
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. Esa-Pekka Salonen
Good First Bad Some Performance Perhaps Course How Been Very Done Them Many Imagine
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that. Esa-Pekka Salonen
Active Pulse Masters Beethoven Means Stravinsky Expression Two
Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is. Esa-Pekka Salonen
Harmony Way Only Conceived His Precisely Stravinsky
My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting. Esa-Pekka Salonen
Music Experience Way Had Does Sound Conducting
Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other. Esa-Pekka Salonen
Time Other Immediately Must He Because Faking Same Suspect Same Time Anyone Who
With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard. Esa-Pekka Salonen
True Particular Because Halls Huge Very American Getting Orchestra Hard Play
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
You Yourself People Think Enough Project Scary Scary Thing Never Hall Hear Very Quietly Barely Play Seats Thing Players
I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older. Esa-Pekka Salonen
You Change Together Older Disturbed Priorities Still Get Your Chord
After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently. Esa-Pekka Salonen
Hear Beethoven Began After Working Differently
Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do. Esa-Pekka Salonen
You People Way Say Angeles Give More Open Los Los Angeles Just Place Us Show Forum Functions They Say
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
People First Possibilities East Out East Coast Find Spirit Something More Something New Stems New Openness La Pioneering Than America Coast Reason
I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so. Esa-Pekka Salonen
Music Will Believe Annual Because Real Doing Sake Artistic Being Dose Reason Film Film Music Program
Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect. Esa-Pekka Salonen
Music Soul Does Intellect Just Just As Much Movement Much Body
When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically. Esa-Pekka Salonen
Music People Spring Symphony Physically Rite Feel End Want
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
Character People Important Nice Think Out London Inviting Hall Very Festival Hang Nice People Royal
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
Every Difficulties Relates Herself Way Musician Concern Greatest Sound Were Hear His Getting Them Next Certain Used Each Seat
Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall. Esa-Pekka Salonen
Day Every Day Progress Understanding Every More Toward Make Concert Concert Hall Hall

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