– There will be fewer and fewer in-depth issues about music and culture – Dagsavisen
Who: Caroline Eidsten Dahl (41) from Drammen
What: Musician, fluent
Why: The Woodpackers Recorder Quartet has over 3.2 million viewers on one of its videos
In addition to Caroline, the quartet consists of: Kate Hearne from Ireland, Pernille Petersen from Denmark, Katarina Widell from Sweden.
It’s usually pop music that draws so many, but you have 3.2 million viewers on Facebook on one of the pieces you play, how does and float quartet manage this?
– We must probably partly thank my brother for that (Anders Eidsten Dahl, musician and cantor). We filmed it in Helsingborg Concert Hall, only with my iPhone. My brother thought it was so good that he submitted to Classic FM – an international Facebook page with almost five million followers. They share it. We were completely shocked, and got several concert assignments. We have gained fans in England, the Netherlands, Germany, the USA and South America, among others.
Watch Woodpacker’s recorder quartets Vivaldi video
You say that you have more fans in Sweden and Denmark than in Norway, what does that come from – is Norway a classic unmusical country?
– Yes, maybe a little. The early music that we do, like baroque music, they are a little ahead of in Sweden and Denmark, and they have several orchestras. In Norway, people still play at the outdoor level, but we recover. But our very first CD has recently been recorded in Norway, and will be released next year. And then we will have concerts now, a showcase and in Emmanuel Vigeland mausoleum on Friday 22. and at a baroque ball at Linderud farm on Saturday 21 and in Tangen church in Drammen on Sunday.
The videos you post are characterized by a lot of humor, how much do you think lies in communication, is it important to be a little festive?
– Yes, it is actually alpha and omega that we show that we love what we are doing. What we do is genuine, and people see it. Among other things, we have wasted too many children and then you have to throw the notes and have eye contact in the communication.
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Yes, how important is it to use social media?
– Important, we show ourselves, also to those who are usually not so interested in classical music.
But the culture may not have been catered for by the media, and perhaps especially the classical music, what do you think about this?
– It is sad that there are not so many reviewers anymore, and there are fewer and fewer in-depth issues about music and culture in general. In Sweden and Denmark, they are better and more at the classical music, where they continued programs, where they discuss new classical CDs, but unfortunately seem to be going in the opposite direction in Norway. There has long been an ongoing debate about the music offer in, for example, NRK P2, where the trend is that programs with slightly more eaten themes about music and culture disappear, and that it is the same playlists that go over and over again on NRK Klassisk. It is a great pressure for the audience not to take to saying or discussing the music on a slightly deeper level, as it is not the audience «trained» to think critically either.
And in a societal perspective, what loss is it that the media is not sufficiently preoccupied with classical music as you see it?
– It becomes difficult to give the listeners, or the readers, a deeper understanding of the music when everything has to be so quick. Ten years ago it was known that at a festival opening concert, there would definitely be one or more reviewers in the hall, but that is no longer the case. Many people miss out on fine experiences because they are not “exposed” to it in the mainstream media and do not know that it exists. But narrow culture is perhaps more accessible even before, because of social media, and whether one just knows what to look for. I think everyone really likes classical music, they just do not know about it.
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And then we have some quick questions:
Which book has meant the most to you?
– The Cabal Mystery by Jostein Gaarder – then I got my eyes open for reading and literature.
Who would you be stuck in the elevator with?
– With the Minister of Culture, then we had a little to discuss.
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