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- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Conducting
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- Nov 07, 2020
This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
- His
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Clarity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.
- Chord
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.
- Differently
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- Nov 07, 2020
After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.
- East Coast
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.
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- Nov 07, 2020