Almost over night Phillip Faber achieved stardom, after he coronakrisen has unified the danes broke into song on DR.
He tries not to let the success rise to his head. But hope at the same time, that his wife will let him keep the many cups with his face on, as the fans have sent him.
“It is incredibly touching, but I see it mostly as a sign of how excited people are for what we are doing. I know, this is me, playing to, but I know the first 100 people who could have done it just as well. I go and say to myself that people are just happy for the opportunity that you can sing along.”
the 35-year-old Phillip Faber is to the daily, the composer and chief conductor of the DANISH radio’s girls ‘ choir, but turns its folds at the DR2 as a host on ‘The classical music quiz’.
With the ‘morning Song with Phillip Faber’ on DR1, as every morning the most recent time has given the coronaisolerede danes something to stand up to, is he, however, reached significantly broader.
And the new kendisstatus can be felt. Production companies will draw in him to get him in different tv formats, and the publishers will have his name on their cover.
But Phillip Faber takes it with elevated ro. He lives and breathes for music, and it must not stand in the shadow of him, like fællessangen must not become so fortærsket, that the danes are getting tired of it just as quickly as they have fallen head over heels for it.
Although he has always loved the Danish society.
“I have the wildest morfarsmag. I only listen to classical, a little jazz and swing, so I don’t give a damn about pop music, and what is in right now. I have been in many situations in the course of their duties, where I was meeting an artist on the stage and had to sit on Spotify and listen to their best-known hits through before, because I’m so miserably far away from the beat.”
But for the time being we have apparently all ‘the wildest morfarsmag’. Phillip Faber the joy in any case to see how the danes greatly suggest him to play the mature and confident songs in this uncertain time.
For the viewers, to decide what should be sung in ‘the Morning with Phillip Faber’. It is important for him, once the program just need to pick the danes.
even if it means that he have to sing the songs, he hardly even would have chosen.
“In the morning I for example sing ‘the Whale Hvalborg’, and…” the sugar program’s pianist, before he with a smile continued:
“Yes, you will probably miss Michael Bundesen (the lead singer of Shu-bi-dua, red.), I think. But it has to be.”
On Twitter are Phillip Faber of Søren Pind has been compared with the iconic Vera Lynn, who during the Second world War came out to sing for the british soldiers and give them a joy in the darkness. The former minister seems, indeed, to Phillip Faber deserve a knight’s Cross for his deed.
Morgensangen is also reached to the Amalienborg palace, where crown princess Mary of denmark, who is patron of the DR girls ‘ choir, wanted, to Phillip Faber would sing ‘the Sun is so red mother’, while the prime minister Mette Frederiksen also got fulfilled his sangønske that sounded on Kim Larsen’s ‘Joanna’.
While tipping it in with words of praise from regular people, who are sitting at home and doing perleplader of his face, paintings and piles of drawings.
“I’ve also got the cups, but unfortunately they are sent to work, so I have not seen them. But I am sure that my wife will love to have ten cups with me standing here at home,” smiles the 35-year-old music director, who is married to the 27-year-old opera director Selma Mongelard Faber, with whom he has a son, August 2.5.
It is with Phillip Faber’s own words, a tsunami of love that washed over him. He tries not to read the whole thing. For then it will just rise to his head, he laughs.
instead, he thought as it creaked to find the song, as he, along with the danes will sing, when the country again opens. Although he gradually recognized that it’s probably not so grandly.
“I have for my inner eye had the image of that all is flowing out on the street and hug each other and shake hands in one away. But I don’t think it’s going to happen. There will be probably opened gradually,” he says.
“Otherwise it would have been obvious to select a song that draws parallels to the liberation, although it also can easily be too thick. I have great respect for those who had to live through the occupation, so it would be menial,” says Phillip Faber.
He has therefore got the idea to sing Mads Nielsen’s ‘An lærke letted’ from 1945, when the danes once again gather on the streets and alleys.
‘And cities blomstred in red and white, and it was spring and Denmark freely.’
