I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.
Esa-Pekka SalonenIf 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.
Esa-Pekka SalonenI can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.
Esa-Pekka Salonen