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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.
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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.
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With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.
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Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.
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I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.
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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.
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My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.
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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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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.
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In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.
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This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.
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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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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.
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