As I mentioned yesterday, today I and 4 our Unda Maris organ studio students talked live on the classical radio program about our upcomming Saturday's concert.
The atmosphere was lively and cheerful thanks to everyone involved, especially our enthusiastic host. He played the drums himself as a kid so knows many things about music.
He was really interested in the fact that people from other professions can play pipe organ. It's counter-intuitive, though. You would think the organists would favor this activity for professionals only. And in many cases it is but I've been trying to promote the art of organ playing online since 2011 and majority of my students are non-musicians. Organ playing is a hobby for them.
As is for our 4 students from today's show - Justas is a doctor in biochemistry (has been playing the organ for two years), Totile is an English translator and teacher (has been playing the organ for two years), Diana - student of geography (has been playing the organ for one year) and Dainius - professor of oncology (has been playing the organ for one year).
The host asked everyone how they fell in love with the organ and played the samples of their organ music on the radio show.
Justas said he studied piano as a kid but chose biochemistry because he loved chemistry and biochemistry sounded good for his career.
Totile talked about the relationship between language and music. She found teaching easier than performing because when you play the organ in public, you can't repeat your mistakes and have to keep going no matter what.
Diana expressed amazement that the host called her when she was practicing yesterday and asked her to come to the show to talk about her organ playing achievements.
Dainius talked about organ music healing powers. Although the science can't say for sure what's going on, music therapy is legit.
I hope you will enjoy Justas and Totile's playing. It's a rehearsal before the event for math department.
