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
live-concerts understanding progress
Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.
team thinking ideas
I like this idea of identification with the local team. I think it's great. That's what an orchestra should be. It's an orchestra for its hometown, and it serves the people.
years pleasure i-can
After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.
art europe ideas
In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.
soul movement body
Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.
cities differences competition
The biggest difference between U.S and most European big cities is that in a place like London, for instance, there are five orchestras, and there's a bloody competition between these five orchestras.
southern surface faster
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.
want kind these-days
The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.
mean two expression
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
thinking trying done
I think we are in the process of getting the word out, and we haven't done very well yet. But we are trying.
morning doors black
I went to work one morning, and outside my door was Cindy Crawford in a black bra, and I thought that very clearly the building is making progress in integrating itself into various layers of our culture.
one-day bullets way
I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it is to be a composer who conducts rather than the other way around.
discovery joy musical
Orphei Drängar possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess.
cutting thinking museums
I think we still do have a PR problem in the sense that these institutions portray themselves quite often as a museum without the contemporary wing. For a young cutting-edge person, why would you get into that sort of business, which is very clearly geared towards dead or almost dead people?