“Music is meant to exist in the moment and not to be recorded.”
 I was listening to an interview with the Danish violinist Nikolaj Znaider on BBC Radio on Saturday. His words made me stop and think.
I met Znaider in 1997 when, as a young graduate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition, he performed at an event I was organising in Brussels.
I remember he made me feel very homesick…and not just because he spoke German with an Austrian accent…actually because of his strong personality.
I have longed for the land of strong personalities all my life.
If you listen to Znaider playing the violin, you’ll know right away what I mean.
It’s the certainty you get by hearing his music. You feel a structure surrounding you and lifting you up.
Isn’t this the feeling we get from strong personalities in general? A feeling that they know the way through life and, if we follow them, we won’t get lost…
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