A week ago I was invited by JONDE, the Spanish National Youth Orchestra, to prepare and coach the first violins for two concerts.
I spent a very special time with wonderful young people for three days, which touched me deeply.
These three days clearly showed me a new generation of musicians. A new generation that is ready to let go of old patterns such as competition, envy and power and to fully embrace their inner calling, their love of music!
This was not only expressed in the irrepressible desire to make music together at the highest level, it was also expressed above all in their dealings with each other.
This group was carried by a love, an understanding and mutual support, a mutual enjoyment that I have never experienced with such intensity.
The musical result was accordingly!!!
These are the new energies that we so urgently need, this is the hope that I have for the musical future, for the coming generations of musicians!
But who is responsible for making this possible? Don’t we keep hearing that the next generation is responsible for improving the “world”? That is the mission of young people, and we place all our hopes in them.
I only agree with that to a certain extent.
I believe that we, the generation before us, bear the greatest part of the responsibility! We are the ones who have to create a space for each new generation to be able to further increase these new opportunities, these new energies with which these people are born, live and develop.
It cannot be that we put everything that we had to experience in our previous life one-to-one over these “new” people again, pulling them into our “old frequency” so that they have to have dubious experiences that we should have transformed long ago in our personal development process!
In my opinion, expressing disappointment about young people also has to do with the fact that many of us “older” people are closed to self-examination, do not face up to our own traumas and believe that it is up to the next generation to redeem them.
From my personal point of view, this is part of the much-discussed generation gap….
Life is an exchange – if we give the next generation the basis, the trust, the recognition and the faith in them to create a new humanity, then the young people will turn to us in gratitude, because they too will then have the opportunity to bow with all due respect to all previous generations who have taken it upon themselves in their respective lives to suffer through difficult conflicts, to forgive each other and thereby increase the energy step by step.
These young people, whom I had the pleasure of meeting, have succeeded in doing so and I know that they will carry this shared experience in their hearts and open new and even greater doors of light for their children!
Thank you from left to right: Samuel, Elsa, Raquel, Silvia, Carlos, Marina, David and Daniel!
