A few years ago, I went to Ireland with my orchestra (from Sweden). We performed Bill Whelan's Riverdance, and the audience was so happy and moved, some crying and others standing up and dancing! I was very jealous of this joy at hearing something that you associate with your country and culture, this sense of pride that I couldn't relate to at all. I remeber thinking, we don't have anything like that, nothing to be proud of, there's nothing that would produce a feeling like that in a Swede...
A few years ago, I went to Ireland with my orchestra (from Sweden). We performed Bill Whelan's Riverdance, and the audience was so happy and moved, some crying and others standing up and dancing! I was very jealous of this joy at hearing something that you associate with your country and culture, this sense of pride that I couldn't relate to at all. I remeber thinking, we don't have anything like that, nothing to be proud of, there's nothing that would produce a feeling like that in a Swede...
Now, watching this, I am experiencing that feeling. That sense of Home.
Thank you!