Hello everybody!
Tonight I'd like to share with you some of my reflections about famous people. Last week I had an opportunity to play in the orchestra Collegium F on New Year's Concerts in Warsaw in the Roma Music Theater and in Poznań. After giving 5 concerts in only 7 days I felt extremely exhausted, but also full of thoughts about the human nature. I worked with two big stars of Polish music, who I haven't been a fan of, and whose music I would consider as cheap mass art. But still it's undeniable that for some reason they've already left their trace in the history of Polish music. I had worked with famous musician before, some of them very strange, so I wasn't very surprised when it turned out that working with those artists was nothing but a very unpleasant experience. They were moody, troublesome and they had no respect for other musician, not to mention the organizers and plenty of other people that were doing whatever they could to satisfy them.
Although it wasn't my first time to play concerts like those, I still haven't got used to this kind of behavior and I'm not able to consider it as something normal, common and acceptable. That's maybe because I could never understand the notion of double standards in some situations. Before the first concert in Warsaw I felt frustrated, helpless and sad (apart from being just hungry and thirsty, because the rehearsal before the first of two concerts that I played that evening was much longer that it should be because of those artists) and I started to think that maybe it's just impossible to be different for people like them.
But I won my hope back during the rehearsal with a famous singer from Roma Music Theatre, Edyta Krzemień. She was nice, professional and... just amazing. She rehearsed what she needed to rehearse, she asked the conductor to repeat some difficult parts and she said 'thank you' to everybody on the stage. So simply. She disappeared and she came back few hours later when it was her turn to sing on the first concert. And then she made me forget about the whole world with her voice, the power of her expression and her sensibility.
I didn't ask anybody for an autograph. I'm just happy that I could shake hands with her. And that I could be a part of her music.
Enjoy:
"Big egos" are very tiresome and usually developed by people who have little reason for it. It's fortunate that you were able to balance out this unpleasant experience with a good one, so just focus on that, and forget those "divas" ;) Some artists believe that what they do gives them some special status and entitlement, but the best ones are just humble, normal people, who care about others and never put themselves above them. All artists I admire are like that (this includes musicians, filmmakers, actors, etc.). Nasty behavior is very seldom justified, no matter how fantastic the art is.
ReplyDeleteYou are 100% right. I am glad to hear that!
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