Nahre Sol and Her Mother

August 2, 2023 9:27 AM

YouTuber Nahre Sol is a classical pianist and composer, and as such posts videos on the creative and technical aspects of making music. But today I'd like to present two of her more personal videos, which she made with her non-musician mother. In the first, she and her mom play a piano duet. In the second, they compose a piece together. The videos are about 10 minutes each and heartwarming as heck. There are some sweet mother-daughter moments (some funny, some touching), cute dogs, and, of course, good music.
posted by mpark (5 comments total)

I hope you like it, but if it's not to your taste, maybe just move on? Thanks.
posted by mpark at 9:41 AM on August 2, 2023

That’s one adventurous Korean mom!
posted by ignignokt at 10:35 AM on August 2, 2023 [1 favorite]

Nahre Sol is one of the best music communicators/educators on youtube. Thanks for posting this, going to clear a space later tonight to watch these
posted by The River Ivel at 11:28 AM on August 2, 2023 [2 favorites]

Thank you for sharing this. She’s one of my favorite piano teachers on yt
posted by andreinla at 2:04 PM on August 2, 2023 [1 favorite]

I get fed a lot of Sol's videos on YouTube for some reason, it's interesting to see how a Julliard-trained musician approaches piano playing issues. But the last few videos I got were like "What you must know/do to succeed as a professional" and I didn't like those at all and were a huge turn-off, I don't know if it's the historical norms of conservatory culture or what, but those ideas, presentation/framing, and attitudes strike me as not very culturally and politically progressive. It reminds me of the less progressive aspects of STEM vs Silicon Valley culture, repeated in a parallel domain. I don't like that such popularity essentially lets these notions get platformed and then young musicians will try to emulate that when a more critical-minded appraisal of music and art's role under capitalism (and, under YouTube Capitalism (indeed one of her latest videos is "how to succeed at a YouTube channel in order to spread your artistic passion"!)) is sorely needed. On the other hand, Sol's other nonpolitical videos like "how to do trill exercises" and "how to sight read using lookahead" are nice edutainment and I can't resist clicking them.
posted by polymodus at 5:27 PM on August 2, 2023