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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.
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.
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.
There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.
There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.
This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.
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.
This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.
When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.
With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.
I really believe in melody.
If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.
These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound.
I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.
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