Once You Get Over The

I'm Composing More Than Before. I'm Cutting Down On Conducting.

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."

Once You Get Over The First Hill, There Is Always A New, Higher One Lurking, Of Course.

I Feel Very Free And Very Happy To Be A Composer.

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.