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| Saturday, January 16
Salonen "does" LA On today's date in 1997, the Finnish composer Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted the premiere performance of one of his own works, entitled "L.A. Variations," in Los Angeles with (who else?) the Los Angeles Philharmonic. "I wrote 'L.A .Variations' specifically for the players of the L.A. Philharmonic," said Salonen. This piece marked a shift from Salonen's earlier work. "I had an interesting discrepancy in my life because I was writing serial, or post-serial music, but conducting Mahler, Strauss, Stravinsky, Debussy, Sibelius, Bruckner� this sort of repertoire with the big sonority and a lot of color and a lot of visceral impact. It was only much later when I came to a point in my own life and work where I was ready to move towards the kind of music I was imagining all along but didn�t quite know how to reach. "For some reason," Salonen continued, "it took me quite a lot of time to create a kind of �one-ness� between the performing side and the composing side, so that both would be reflections of the same temperament." The music is also a tribute to L.A. itself, a place Salonen describes as being "open." "The way L.A. functions, at least in my experience," says Salonen, "is that people give you a forum. They say, 'OK, here it is. Show us what you can do.' There is a pioneering spirit there that still stems from the reason people went out there in the first place -- to find something new, to create something new." |  | Music Played on Today's Program: Additional Information:
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