Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.
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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
I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.
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I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.
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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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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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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.
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