Esa Pekka Salonen Quotes

• 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.

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

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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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• 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.

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• I’ve learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

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• I’m still disturbed if a chord isn’t together, but your priorities change as you get older.

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• I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.

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

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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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• 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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

   

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

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Esa Pekka Salonen (36)

Birth:	30th June, 1958
Nationality:	Finnish
Profession:	Composer, Music Conductor

About

Esa Pekka Salonen was born in Helsinki, Finland. He is a Finnish music conductor and composer. He is currently Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, Conductor Laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Composer-In-Residence at the New York Philharmonic.

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