SCO: The Legend of Silk and Bamboo

Last Saturday night (26/7/08), I went to Singapore Conference Hall with my parents for Singapore Chinese Orchestra (SCO) concert. The concert was great and somehow I found that the music performation was seem quite good overrode. The both soloists, Yan Jia Min (erhu) and Zhang Wei Liang (dizi) were really good that night. Although the concert held for two days, we went there on the second day of concert as my father bought the one year ticket packet indeed. (I wonder why he didn't bought two day ticket concert instead of one day concert?)
Anyway, here the list for the concert:
1)Virtuous Heart#
2)Island of Fantasy*+
-The Sea
-Fusion
-Soaring
3)Ancient Echoes*+
-An Allusion(2)
-The Aura(3)
4)Traces V**
5)Carmen Fantasy**
Note: #This was composed for the late SCO musician, Yeo Puay Hian *This may already performed on the first day concert still had to replay the piece during the second day of concert **Performed by erhu soloist together with the orchestra +Performation by electronic music
Note: The "Ancient Echoes" was reduce to two pieces instead of three due to the first day of concert.
The "Virtuos Heart" is the literally name known as "Xinxian" in Chinese. And "xian" is also last word of late Yeo Puay Hian's name as "Yang Pei Xian" in Chinese. Thus, it was honor to compose this piece as his most memorable of time with the orchestra before he went passed away."Island of Fantasy" was the composed of fantasise about Singapore, one of the well known country in Southeast Asia since the 3rd century. This was composed into three movement; The Sea, Fusion, and Soaring. Though the music background was added by electronic music for the sound effert, music was very good for combaim the elecrtonic music."Ancient Echoes" was created from the elements of traditional folk turnes and classic work from the 20th century. This piece had three part for significance and rich colours of traditional and contemporary Chinese cultures; In Search of The Sound, An Allusion and The Aura. While these three parts are played in full, the last two parts, An Allusion and The Aura, were the among parts for shorten piece in abbeviated version. Yet it was work with dizi, xiao and xun altogether. The "Traces V" was odd piece of music which was commisioned by National Chinese Orchestra of Taiwan and periered by Miss Yan Jie Min, Qu Chunquan, the conductor and the Taiwan of orchestra. The music was composed about the Chinese calligraphy, which is among of Chinese artwork and the Chinese words were created by sound of music. The main erhu acts as the bush while the whole of orchestra act as the rice paper. Which was why, I said this piece was odd one....0*0; The "Carmen Fantasy" known as "Pablo de Sarasate" was well composed piece since in 1883 based on the Bizet's opera Carmen. The originated piece was meant for violin, some parts of this piece seem difficult for the erhu player so it was adapted into erhu version for the difficult level ease.
What I liked the most were the "Virtous Heart", "Island of Fantasy", "Ancient Echoes" and the last piece just before went for on called. The on called piece was the solo erhu piece which seem not bad one but I think the mircophone didn't pick up the sound clearly. Oh well, maybe next time the people in change for stage should test every mircophone before event concert start..... ^^;;