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

If You Think Of The History, In The Days Of Brahms And Beethoven And All These Guys, Almost Every Concert Was A New Music Concert. To Play Something Old Was Really An Exception.

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

I Was Starting A Group Of Musicians And We Had A Group Of Young Composers In Finland Back In The '70s, And The Real Conductors, The Professional Conductors At The Time Were Not Interested In Our Stuff.

Somehow, Conductor As This Superhuman Conduit Between The Masters And The Masterpieces And The Immortals.

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