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.
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.
people trying talent
Of course performing talent, that's clear. Maybe this is not so well-known among young people who are interested in music, who are talented in music, but they're trying to figure out how to go about it.
giving people way
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.
player thinking people
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.
america people east
There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.
people today world
There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.
two people different
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.
people giving focus
Conducting is intensely social. You work with a hundred people every day. You collaborate, you try to focus their thoughts, you try to give them a concept, you try to inspire them, and it's actually exhausting.
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.
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.
english-musician
After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.
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.
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.