Pekka savijoki biography of barack

Saxophone Concerto () is dedicated to Pekka Savijoki. In a programme note Salonen forst discussed the Darmstadt and other modernism, and then proceeded to comment as follows upon his own piece:

"I would like to return to the subject of Darmstadt, even at the risk of being accused of monomania in this matter: But in my opinion it was a historical necessity which enforced the strict organisation of the part elements of music, just as it happened with the new dodecaphonic hierarchy some thirty years earlier.

Structuration was most certainly indicated in a situation where it was not yet possible to master extremely complicated textures just by relying on one's ear, intuition, and taste. But as the command of the language has grown, so grammar has been allowed to recede into the background, while the message, the expression, has regained its proper place.

This (I hope) is the revelation of my Saxophone Concerto to the post-war avantgarde; the pioneers have done their job, the number of