Coming from a sort of very rigid European type of training to this culture which is just a … - Esa-Pekka Salonen

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Esa-Pekka Salonen

Coming from a sort of very rigid European type of training to this culture which is just a little more open - a lot more open, and kind of curious, and asking different sorts of questions. Because the problem for me was that the European modernist movement in the '70s was all about right or wrong. Some things were right and you were dealing with the truth, as it were, and then some things were wrong and therefore not allowed.

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