Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen: ; born June 30, 1958) is a Finnish orchestral conductor and composer. He is currently Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, Conductor Laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Composer-In-Residence at the New York Philharmonic, and Artistic Director and cofounder of the Baltic Sea Festival...
NationalityFinnish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth30 June 1958
CountryFinland
functions los people
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.
barely hall quietly scary seats
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.
based experience modern odds performance visual
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.
continuity form
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.
english-musician
After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.
music people rite
When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.
certain musician next relates
The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat.
competition coins position
If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.
classic kind retarded
Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.
couple attitude moving
Lots of really interesting people move to U.S and decide to work here, because of this whole attitude and openness. I'm absolutely convinced that this is just the beginning. In a couple decades we will see an even more dramatic change.
flukes conducting happened
Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.
suits riding bikers
There was this kind of mildly annoying mythology about conductor Like biker should riding a Harley-Davidson on an LP cover, and wearing a sort of a leather suit.
thinking play guy
If you think of the history, in the days of Brahms and Beethoven and all these guys, almost every concert was a new music concert. To play something old was really an exception.
world classical-music certain
Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.