My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.
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There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.Esa-Pekka Salonen
The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.
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The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.
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There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.
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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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