CLAIRE CHASE<\/a><\/strong> (flutist) I grew up in north San Diego County, and went to public schools where there was no music program. A lot of my musical education happened instead at the San Diego Youth Symphony, which is, I think, a really important cultural organization. It has this storied and really progressive history. California is this maze of contradictions. It has this D.I.Y. fervor \u2014 and I don\u2019t mean in the corporate, Silicon Valley co-opting of that word \u2014 that gave birth to and sustains every artistic organization: Asian Improv Arts, the Tape Music Center and Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley\u2019s \u201cIn C\u201d being a totally D.I.Y. concert.<\/p>\nI have these beautiful memories of Pauline barefoot with her accordion embodying this you-can-be-whatever-you-want-to-be feeling that\u2019s so typically Californian and beautiful and true. She was this queer iconoclast doing her thing but also community building.<\/p>\n
GILMER<\/strong> When I was going to move out here, someone told me, \u201cWhatever you can dream, it\u2019s possible.\u201d I really think that\u2019s true. I don\u2019t know where else I could have opened the Rady Shell [an open-air stage on the San Diego Bay] and started a hall renovation within five years.<\/p>\nRAFAEL PAYARE<\/strong> And anyone can see us at the Shell because it\u2019s outside in the park. We are rehearsing, and there\u2019s someone walking their dog.<\/p>\nBuilding in Los Angeles<\/h2>\n SALONEN <\/strong>When I did my debut with the L.A. Philharmonic [in 1984], I\u2019d never been to this country. They put me up in the Biltmore, which in those days had a suite with a grand piano. I tried to go for a walk, and the doorman said, \u201cShall I call you cab?\u201d I said I\u2019d just stroll around a bit, and he said, \u201cI don\u2019t recommend that.\u201d Anyway, there was an older cellist who came up to me after the second rehearsal and said, \u201cWelcome to your new home.\u201d I started coming back every season, and when Andr\u00e9 Previn stepped down, there was this letter from the board that modestly said they would like to develop the L.A. Phil into the world\u2019s best orchestra, would I like to be a part of that process?<\/p>\nOne morning much later, when I was living in Santa Monica, I got up really early, and my kids were still asleep. I sat in the kitchen, made myself a coffee and thought, What is this weird feeling? And I realized: I\u2019m happy. I feel free, not straight-jacketed by some kind of European, dusty modernist discourse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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