Last Sunday(7/6/08), my parents and myself went to the Singapore Conferrce Hall for the Chinese orchestra concert. This time both Singapore Youth Chinese Orchestra(SYCO) and the Singapore Chinese Orchestra(SCO) were playing number of songs on the list for this year's concert.Every year, there will be involvement between both groups to play centian kind of music.In first round, the youth orchestra are played the first pieces of music following then the main orchestra's turn for few pieces before they are joined in by some members of the youth orchestra for last piece.
Speaking about youth orchestra, it is not easy for some youth to be chose for the member of the orchestra. It must be at least high standard for the quarreller for the orchestra. Same goes for Chinese orchestra. That was what my mom told me after the concert as I'm still learning the Erhu as my main instalment.
As for this year concert, here were some of the songs on that evening:
SYCO
1)The General's Command
2)The Potrait of Labouring at Salt Pond
3)In Search of the Roots of the Ancient Pagoda Tree
4)Bumper Harvest Worship
SCO
1)Song of Guangzhong*
2)Agony in Lin'an*
3)Gada Meilin Symphonic Poem#
*Preformed by solo youth musicians
#Combination with SYCO members
The General's Command was written in many years ago before in was discovered in 1818. Gu Guan Ren was rewritten for the main orchestra which were played nowadays. The piece was supposed play on pipa were high power and great climatic presentation of the first melodic and last expressive of great flow of the composition. The Potrait of Labouring at Salt Pond was the inspired about the labouring in early years.Bumper Harvest Worship was based on the worship fields on the harvest day in Taiwan. The great combination orchestras was Gada Meilin Symphonic Poem which was written based on true story of the battlefield in Northern part of China during the 20th century. The late hero of Mongolians was Gada Meilin who was later framed and died in a heroic death. The most interesting pieces were Agony in Lin'an and In search of the Roots of the Ancient Pagoda Tree. Agony in Lin'an was song about the Yue Fei, the hero who was framed by the trencherous court offcial and sent prison in Lin'an City during the Song dynasty. He was feeling about the battle life, longing for his family including his indignation towards the enemies before his death sentenced. Another piece, In Search of the Roots of the Ancient Pagoda Tree was about a song of the folk tune. The folks were saying: "Where are my ancestors? Oh large Pagoda Tree of Shsnxi caverns..." That was where their ancetors' spitirs lived those trees near away their loving hometown.
I was enjoyed myself only where it comes about those kids, well, they overenjoy and happy enough to see their favour music stars on stage( Chang Le and Yvonne Tay as soloists). Ha ha... no wonder that was quite some noise during the concert ever where that was coming about the youth orchestra... ^^;
