Mom asks internet if anyone could play her 10-year-old's first composition, internet does just that
The 10-year-old Olive Wallace's "For Greatness We Bring" has become a TikTok hit
Last week, a woman named Michelle Wallace posted a video on TikTok that showed a bit of sheet music written by her 10-year-old daughter, Olive, and asked if anyone out in the digital ether could do her the favor of playing it “to see if it makes any sense.”
In the days that followed, the internet responded with a rare display of communal goodness and performed the kid’s composition—“For Greatness We Bring”—in the form of harp and piano solos, a group string rendition, and much more.
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The most impressive of these comes in the form of an arrangement by Christopher T.F. Hanson, performed by string educators attending last week’s NAfME Northwest Conference.
As the above video makes clear, Olive’s debut work not only makes sense, but also sounds really good. It inspired others to take a stab at versions of the piece, like a pianist and violinist in two different solos, a video of a piano and violin accompanying one another, a harp soloist, and, shown in a compilation clip from Michelle Wallace, a whole lot of other musicians, too.
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