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Esa-Pekka Salonen

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


— Esa-Pekka Salonen


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Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.


— Esa-Pekka Salonen


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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


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Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.


— Esa-Pekka Salonen


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I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.


— Esa-Pekka Salonen


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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


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I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.


— Esa-Pekka Salonen


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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.


— Esa-Pekka Salonen


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I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.


— Esa-Pekka Salonen


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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.


— Esa-Pekka Salonen


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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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