Vera Anselmo: "COVID is nothing compared to the power of music!"

28 Sept 2020 · 3 min

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This content was created by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This content was uploaded by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This is a YouTube video titled "Vera Anselmo: \"COVID is nothing compared to the power of music!\"" (uploaded 2020-09-28). The excerpt is an English interview/discussion between an interviewer (SPEAKER A) and a respondent (SPEAKER B, likely Vera Anselmo per the title) about how COVID-19 has affected music, performing arts, and music education. SPEAKER B describes the struggles faced, the administrators' efforts to keep students engaged, and expresses a hopeful view that the pandemic will be a temporary pause leading to a renaissance in arts and music.

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I was going to ask you, actually, obviously the big elephant in the room is COVID and how it's affected all of us in music and entertainment, educational industries. How has it affected you guys?
No different than anybody else. It's definitely a struggle. You know, we obviously try our best with our wonderful administrators that we have. Who work very hard to communicate with parents and inspire them to continue with music studies or theater classes at this time. But of course, it's a very— these are very challenging times that I'm sure we're all going to remember forever for all, you know, musicians and professionals in performing arts. We are struggling along. It's a lesson that I think we, we are learning of how to deal with unprecedented type of circumstances. And I think that overall though, we, we're gonna all hopefully gonna come stronger and, and, and, and better. And I think I, I You know, I strongly believe that music has such power. So I think COVID is nothing. I think that we're going to come out stronger than ever after this is over. And it's going to be a renaissance of arts and music blossoming all around the world. And we, you know, the— The huge pay— payback, so to speak, is coming for all musicians and professionals in this industry because I believe that it's just a pause. We are on pause to reflect, to see what it is that we need to do. Be creative. Don't complain, right? Be positive. Learn. Learn a new skill. We are definitely going to reap the fruits of our labor later on.