SCO: Flavours of Scotland-Go Celtic

Last Saturday night(29/3/08) my parents and myself went to the Singapore Conference Hall for the Singapore Chinese Orchestra(SCO). And their main theme was base on the music of the Scotland folksongs.
Although the main sponsor were by offical group people for the event for every concert, there was another group who were sponsred for this event was by British Council. And the main guest proformers were from Scotland; Alistair Anderson and Chris Stout. Both were the only musicals soloists.
There were number of songs to be play for the concert. Here the list of the songs:
1)Amazing Grace
2)Molly on the Shore#
3)Synergy
4)Fiddlers Free+
5)Look East*
6)My Love is Like a Red Red Rose+
7)Four Scottish Dances#
8)Songs of the North+
Note: "Amazing Grace" were preformed by a group of Women Police Pipes & Drums with the orchestra.
*Written by Alistair Anderson
+Written by Eric Watson
#Note: this was taken as adaptation.
The first piece of music was very nice as the pipes' sounds were very gracefully one. "The Molly on the Shore" was kind of an American song to me but the music was a good piece almost the same as the Western orchestra, but quite very difference as this music was played on Chinese verison instead. "Look East" was the solo group played together with Alistair who wrote this compose and the soloist with his concertiana(something like a paper lantern used during moonlight festives but, it is a instrument) and music, well..... was not bad with this piece. Quite suitable for small number of the musical group.What I liked the best was "Fiddlers Free" and "Songs of the North". The Fiddler comes from the tune of the violin version music. And it plays full of freewill with the fiddler as they said goes; 'violin plays music while fiddler dancing' that's what you called the"Fiddlers Free". And it was very good music. The soloist, Chist Stout who was main violin player was very good at this piece.The "Song of the North" was played during the 18th century when a group of Chinese musical went to Europe to proform there together with the other western people. It was wonderfull music as these pieces of music were switching one piece to another then came back to the first piece. Talking about "My Love is Like a Red Red Rose" used to play by the guitar which was taken over by a group of 'ruan' as they sound kind of very beautifull and had almost same sound as guitar too. The solo violin was played melody well. Kind liked singing of stings.
So far, was that I almost fallen asleep during the time of concert and that was the only one of the music that I nearly...... fell asleep and that was before the last music of proforme item. HA HA HA.... don't blame on me though as sometimes music could turn me off into the sleep. That's one reason should know about it. By right, I shouldn't do that during the concert. >0
Next round for coming concert, I try not to sleep just in case. Hee hee....!! @_@
Note: Talking about Eric Watson, he was there at the concert on that day. Too bad, no chance to talk to him in real person as I went home after the concert.