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" 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. "

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Air

Sensual

Pleasure

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Learned

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One Thing

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. "

" 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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Esa-Pekka Salonen

Because

Time

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" Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that. "