Mother knows best.
A Pennsylvania fifth grader composed a rating, and because of her supportive mom, it’s now being played by musicians all around the world.
Olive Wallace penned the tune at home, but when the 10-year-old violin and clarinet player performed it, she thought it sounded terrible, so she abandoned her sheet music on the kitchen counter.
Her mother, Mimi, discovered it and posted it to TikTok, asking users to perform the piece.
“So, my 10-year-old daughter wrote this,” she said within the video. “Could any person play this? I would like to know. I would like to know if it’s any good or makes any sense.”
“I come from a family of music teachers and I can read music but I don’t have perfect pitch,” Wallace told Today.com. “I desired to know what Olive’s music seemed like, so I asked TikTok.”
A number of hours later, it had received roughly 1 million views and inside the week, reached 4 million.
“I actually didn’t think it was going to be what it became,” Mimi, 42, told The Washington Post. “I used to be hoping to get like 500,000 views.”
One music teacher performed Olive’s song on the violin and piano and shared it with the mother-daughter duo.
“That is so fun — I swear that I see a pair sharps here indicating a key signature so I assumed it’s in D Major,” she said in her video post. “Mine goes to sound a bit different. I hope she likes it!”
Other musicians have played it on the clarinet or bass.
“At all times completely satisfied to assist budding composers,” a harpist said.