I Think If You Would

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.

There Is Such A Suspicion In Today's World Of People Who Do More Than One Thing, Who Aren't Specialized.

With American Orchestras, In Particular, Because They Play In Such Huge Halls, Getting A True Pianissimo Is Very Hard.

If Somebody Had Told Me When I Was Starting Composition In Helsinki In The '70s That I Would End Up In L.a. And To Describe That Journey, Those 17 Years With The Philharmonic And Building The Hall And This And That, I Would Have Said, "this Is A Fairy Tale Of The First Order."