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Fathers and sons. A collision of two generations, two different outlooks on life.
No, it's not about staging of the Turgenev's drama, but about a successful connection of the two families of Rybak and Kazinik,
that happened in the concert hall Dzintary with participation of the string group of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra.
One believes that children want to go their way diverging from the way of their parents. But as it is said: "An apple does not fall far from the tree".
Our audience could convince themselves of that watching the four talented musicians: Alexander and Igor RYBAK and Mikhail and Boris KAZINIK.
MK: We just want to show that actually there is no conflict between fathers and children through beauty, through art, through culture, through beauty , yes?
The conflict always arises at the height of outrage, at the height of stupidity, at the height of ugliness. Therefore beauty unites the world and saves the world.
Dostoevsky said: "Beauty will save the world". And this is a truth in principle, if people would learn to value this beauty.
R: The idea of giving such concert came to Mikhail Kazinik 3 years ago, after Alexander Rybak's victory at Eurovision.
And the point is not just that their families are connected by long-standing friendship. Sasha was brought up on classical music that lifts his high level
making it possible for him to perform on the same stage both his own compositions and compositions of such great composers like Vivaldi and Bach.
AR: I didn't have any friends the first year when we came to Norway.
So I only knew what happened in our home, yes?
And in our home one had to pracrise one hour a day or two hours even when I was 6-7 years old, yes?
And I think it's the same for every child - if mom and dad wear kangaroo suits and jump in the garden then I would think that everybody does that.
So I thought that everybody pracrised 2-3 hours per day. And when I found out that it's only me who did that
then I understood that I could... how it is... negotiate, yes. Well... LEGO... do you have that toy, yes?
So that if you pracrised an hour then you got a toy.
IR: What kind of father I was? R: Yes.
IR: Fair. Strict. Demanding. And cheerful. And kind.
R: And what kind of son was he?
IR: Son? ... Well, the best son I ever had...
He is my only son.
R: Do you remember his... kind of bad behaviour or some shenanigans, something interesting from his childhood?
IR: Well, all children have their shenanigans, naturally... Of course, he had his shenanigans...
he never broke bows and he pracrised well and therefore... shenanigans...
I don't remember shenanigans, you know... you always remember something good...
R: How should one bring up children to make them this brilliant? IR: One should love them.
Only love. Everything comes from love.
In Norway there is interesting balance, to make it interesting for a child, to not make him look at a practising like a torture,
and together with that to make him realize that it all is done for him. You should come up with open heart
both to your children and to other peoples children when you teach. Then there will be a good result.
MK: I wasn't a strict father but when my child like every other child did not want to pracrise, I went to the phone, picked up the handset
and pretended speaking to the director of the 11-years-school, and said: "Borja Kazinik doesn't practise. We will have to quite."
He instantly took the violin, came up and started to "saw" right under my ear, showing that he is pracrising diligently.
R: How long did it work? MK: You know, it worked until he felt the absolute beauty of violin
and the delight from the girls that started to fall in love with him. ...boys started to keep him company ... that he comes out on stage and he is not just...
especially in Sweden, he at 15-years-old came out on the big stage, played a concert and right away all newspapers wrote
that he captivated all hearts, that little boy, A representative of the Russian violin school. And then he understood everything immediately.
R: Now he is probably grateful to you? MK: For sure. He says... He even says that
when we came to Sweden he didn't know a word of Swedish. But he came on stage and started to play.
And everybody started to applaud. And even to pay money. Then he understood that this profession is real in the whole world.
MK: I wish that young parents would be a bit wiser and not to respond to the provocation of the crowd, not to respond to momentary influence,
but they should understand that if they want happiness for their children, they should lead their children into the big world.
And the big world is not a world of present moment. That world is eternal.
The world of eternal ideas, eternal beauties, eternal worship.
Do you remember how Kant said? "There are only two truths. These are the starry sky above us and the inner moral law inside us."
That stays true for all times. I would advise parents to understand that themselves and to pass it to their children.
R: Being brought up under these rules, these children will bring up their own children the same way, when they become parents themselves.
But for example Alexander Rybak is not ready for something so serious up to now. And not everything turns out well in his personal life so far.
AR: If someone wants really know about my personal life then let them watch my new video called "Strela Amura"("Arrow of Cupid").
We shot it in Kiev. And I describe the life of an artist.
It's like in the daytime I connect everybody, people fall in love with each other, everything is so cheerful. And in the evening I am alone in the hotel
and I am crying in the shower and so on... So I describe that very, very, very honestly.
But the rain is crying
And I am struggling with my sorrow and my longing
together with it
I believe somewhere,
deep in my soul,
that light of love will come to me