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Esa-Pekka Salonen | Photo: Nicho Sodling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From an article<\/a> from the Chicago arts blog Newcity Music [emphasis mine]:<\/p>\n

\u201cComing out of Europe, from very Boulezian circles\u2014with all due respect, of course\u2014and coming to LA with this somewhat arrogant Eurocentric idea that, \u2018Okay, I\u2019m from Europe, I\u2019m going to show you guys what culture is and what we should be thinking.\u2019 To my credit, I got quite quickly this is not the way to deal with this situation. Better to actually try to learn the identity of the local culture and how a symphony orchestra as an institution could have this unique identity of a Southern California arts organization as opposed to trying to plug in the Vienna Philharmonic clone somewhere in the San Fernando Valley. I luckily saw the light quite quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The change for Salonen came from the fact that he made the decision to actually live in Los Angeles and assimilate the local culture.<\/strong> \u201cMy first daughter was very little, so we started a new family life in a new country and on a new continent. She went to school there, and you get to know people in a completely different way as opposed to being a conductor who jets in and stays in a swanky hotel like this and flies out after the last show.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomewhere in this whole process I started to realize that we were very far from Europe and the European polemics about the supremacy of serial music in postwar avant-garde music. All that started to seem like fairly useless huffing and puffing when I was sitting out in Santa Monica.\u201d<\/p>\n

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From an article from the Chicago arts blog Newcity Music [emphasis mine]: \u201cComing out of Europe, from very Boulezian circles\u2014with all due respect, of course\u2014and coming to LA with this somewhat arrogant Eurocentric idea that, \u2018Okay, I\u2019m from Europe, I\u2019m going to show you guys what culture is and what we should be thinking.\u2019 To […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[299,2],"tags":[2559,3678,1524],"class_list":["post-5896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conducting","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-composing","tag-conducting","tag-esa-pekka-salonen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1x6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13375,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/29\/salonen-and-apple-are-a-potent-mix\/","url_meta":{"origin":5896,"position":0},"title":"salonen and apple are a potent mix","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 29, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/your-verse\/orchestrating-sound\/","rel":"","context":"In "conducting"","block_context":{"text":"conducting","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/conducting\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"eps-apple","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/eps-apple-500x373.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4271,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/26\/oso-music-director-to-conduct-bso\/","url_meta":{"origin":5896,"position":1},"title":"OSO music director to conduct BSO","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"David Stabler reports that Carlos Kalmar has been asked to fill in for James Levine with the Boston Symphony in early April. 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