Mirga: ‘I had rehearsals instead of kindergarten’
mainBirmingham’s incoming music director, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, has come up with a vivid recollection of growing up as the child of professional musicians:
My father is a choral conductor and my mother a pianist. They wanted to steer me away from music, thinking that it’s not a secure profession. But they took me along to their rehearsals anyway, to concerts and conducting lessons. I had that instead of kindergarten. Then at one point, music was the only profession I could imagine. And as a conductor, you’re simultaneously with music and with people. Both are very important to me.
Read more here.
Oh all this Mirga talk is too much. Please do her a favour and give it a rest for a little while and allow her just to start her job in a few months without us all being sick and tired of hearing her name…!
So true.
So cute!