I was honoured to make an interwiev with the great violinist Vilde Frang a day before the concert she had with Tampere Filharmonia. She seems to be a very real person and I really enjoyed discussing with her. After the interwiev we just kept talking and she promissed I could share something of it in this blog.
We were talking about music and children. Vilde Frang started her career as a soloist at a very young age, she was 10 years old when she played front of a symphony orchestra for the first time. Frang said the most important reason she became "living the music" was her parents. They gave her the good circumstances to explore music. Vilde Frang told she listened to concerts of Oslo Philharmonic from a 3-year-old. Of course I told her about Elli, and she said she is honoured to play also to such a young listener. It's all about training a child's ear to explore music. All children should have the same opportinity to use their imagination and all their senses. In my opinion culture is a great tool to do that.
Vilde Frang doesn't think she was a wonder child (even though the Norwegian media wanted to make her one) but she absorbed all the music she was given. I think she put it nicely: she was given a possibility to form her own world of music from a very young age. I agree with Vilde Frang about that making or listening to music is not a question of an age.
There are so many things I would like to write about Vilde Frang and our inspiring discussion. But as I was a journalist on a duty I can not share the things that I learned during the interwiev. You can read more in Rondo Music Magazine in December. Vilde Frang will be in the cover. Unfortunately the article is published only in Finnish.
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