I Like This Idea Of Identification With

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."

The Sort Of Commercial Parameters Of Classical Music Changed After The [world War Ii] , And The Whole Industry Became More Backward-looking.

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.

The Philharmonic Became Such A Journey And Adventure In My Life, And A Deeply Satisfying Thing.

I'm Trying To Conduct Only Five Months A Year, And The Rest Will Be Composing Time. I'm Trying To Spend As Much As I Can Out Of Those Months Here In L.a., Because For Creative Work, This Is A Fantastic Place.