I'm Composing More Than Before. I'm Cutting

I Feel That This Is My Artistic Home, And I'm Very Happy To Be A California Artist Together With Many Others Who Are Not From Here Originally But Who Decided To Make This The Center Of Their Activities. There's Something About That That I Find Very Inspiring And Satisfying.

Orchestras Have Become Used To The Emphasis On The Separation Of Layers, Of The Ultimate Precision And Clarity.

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.

My Music Wouldn't Sound The Way It Does If I Hadn't Had The Experience Of Conducting.

I Think We Still Do Have A Pr Problem In The Sense That These Institutions Portray Themselves Quite Often As A Museum Without The Contemporary Wing. For A Young Cutting-edge Person, Why Would You Get Into That Sort Of Business, Which Is Very Clearly Geared Towards Dead Or Almost Dead People?