Watch: Mirga on her Baltic beach

Marion Ammicht says:

OK, it‘s me, the author of this little report. Thanks for watching and for your questions. Here my answers:

– It is not PR. I am a journalist and I did this on behalf of ARD/ WDR, german public broadcasting. Name of programme is ttt- titel, thesen, temperamente. Most of the footage and all of research, interview etc is done by our own

– It was not the aim to spread platitudes (whatever you think you would have detected) but to tell the story in such a short slot in a way that it is possible to understand also if you are not well trained in classical music. Music examples had to work quickly, it does not work dramaturgically if you have to tell several aspects choosing long passages revealing in long time which are missing, yes, but if there is not more time for your story you have to deal with it.

– Yes, I heard about Bernstein and Abbado. No, her collegial approach was not presented as innovation but as a characteristic of her and her way of working. The story was not that she would be the first one doing like this, but one of the current generation of successful and interesting female conductors, and the first who leads CBSO and now being artist in resident at Konzerthaus Dortmund

– The soundbite as a child singing on TV was not presented (originally by me) as a „rare soundbite“ but in context of her and her families connection to baltic singing tradition which played even an important role thirty years ago when the baltic nations struggled for independency. This all referring to her as a passionate european working in GB during Brexit-Times.

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MA