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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

Topics: Barely Enough Hall Hear Never People Play Players Project Quietly Scary Scary Thing Seats Thing Think Very You Yourself

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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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Topics: About Always Became Continuity Continuous Form Going He How Interested Really Something Sound Working

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If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.

~Esa-Pekka Salonen

Topics: Based Because Construction Everything Experience Idea Modern Odds Our Performance Piece Showing Something Today Visual Wrong

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As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.

~Esa-Pekka Salonen

Topics: Become Becoming Edit Films Foreign Idea Jumping Only Organic Rather Than Transitions Tv Watch

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

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Topics: Become Clarity Emphasis Layers Orchestra Precision Separation Ultimate Used

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After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.

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Topics: After Beethoven Began Differently Hear Working

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In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.

~Esa-Pekka Salonen

Topics: Differences More Music Play Range Really Roughly Similarities Than Years

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In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

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Topics: Always Art Been Established Europe Everyone Ideas Much Should Tradition

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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

Topics: America Coast East East Coast Find First La More New Openness Out People Pioneering Possibilities Reason Something Something New Spirit Stems Than

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Finnish

Type: Musician

Born: June 30th, 1958

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