Los Angeles Is Just A

If I Were In A Position To Announce A Public Competition To Coin A New Word, I Would Do So Right Now.

I'm Still Disturbed If A Chord Isn't Together, But Your Priorities Change As You Get Older.

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."

I Think Truth As An Idea Should Be Left To The Philosophers And Perhaps Religious Leaders And Politicians, And Professional People Who Deal With That Idea.

Stravinsky Is Masterly: His Harmony Is Conceived So Precisely That It Can Only Be The Way It Is.