Last two weeks ago, my mum asked me whether I would like to go for the music concert on two different dates. At my first though was went 'Hmmm.....' as I though I was really interesting to join in with my dad for the evening concert since she not always so keen to see the concert very often. Then she past two tickets to me and asked me to go concert with my older sister, Esther. I was wondering about it and asked her: "Uh.... mum, then what about you and dad? Aren't you guys going for the night concert?" That when mum told me about their reason: they had invitation cards from someone for the wedding dinner on the actually day for the concert!! And not one but two different wedding dinners on the same dates which fell on 13 of Sept and 27 of Sept....The same date that they supposed to go for the concert so that was why we both of us as the sisters had to go and see the music concert..... ^_^;
On last Saturday(13/9/08) I was having review for the Math subject due to the porpoised date so I went back to school in the afternoon. After that, I went back home and changed out for the concert before going out with sister. At that point of time, we were in a hurry for it as it was started at 8:00 PM shape so we took the taxi instead. After a long trip through the expressway road as it was full with heavy traffic, we manged to reach the Conference Hall in time. Although it was just few minutes before started the programme, I went to the counter at level 3 to get the programme booklet. But..... uh..... I end up bought two instead of one because there was a box for others to drop money into when bought the booklet and nobody had the small change for me as I had only two dollar note with me so I dropped in the note and took two booklets with me. Geez.... sister must had mad at me for buying two booklets. ^^;;
For the concert, Zheng Elegance which was performed in set of 'zheng' series together with the Chinese Orchestra group. The main conductor guest was Quek Ling Kiong for the concert performation. Here are the list for the item songs
1)The Soul of Mount Tai
2)Mooring at Night by Maple Bridge
3)The Overlord-Xiang Yu
4)Wind of Falling Plum Blossom*
5)Melodies of Hanjiang#
6)Butterfly Dream
*Origin composed by Xu Jian Qiang
#Combine solo group without orchestra
'The Soul of Mount Tai' was just the piece of sound and poem music about the mount in part of China.This composer was impress about the mount during the visit trip.The 'Butterfly Dream' was based on an essay from 'On Equality of Things' by Zhuang Zi which was mixed of emotion of dreams through fanesty of the illsuiltion.The 'Melodies of Hanjiang' was the origin music composed of 'Han Jiang' and 'Narrative Song' thus it had named for the both music. The most favour which I liked so far were 'The Overlord-Xiang Yu', 'Mooring at Night by Maple Bridge' which based on the Kun opeara and the origin composed piece by China composer, Xu Jian Qiang's 'Wind of Falling Plum Blossom'. 'The Overlord-Xiang Yu', was composed about late army's leader, Xiang Yu. The 'Wind of Falling Plum Blossom' was one of master Xu Jian Qiang's work and it was based the Zhejiang folk opera 'Little Red Plum Blossom' which the story was about the Chinese ancient lady's longings for her lover who left in a faraway distance in a deep emotion of feelings and moods. After the concert, my sister asked me to call my parents to pick up us as we not had our dinner yet.
On the following week which was on 27/9/08, Saturday, we went out early for the concert this time, Music of No Boundaries. But.... the only problem was that we had to walk to the Conference Hall from the MRT station once we arrived by train. Because, there was happening on F1 race track that blocked some of the road junction so we had to find way to get there. When we finally reached the Conference Hall, we had to get into the concert hall before the performation started soon. Here were the items for the performation:
1)The Worship
2)Erhu Rhapsody No.4*
3)The Carefree Journey*
4)The First North West Suit
-3rd movement:Thinking of my Dearest
-4th movement:The Stone Slab Waist Drum
*Note:These were composed by the music conductor, Kuan Nai Chung
Althrough the concert was wonderful at that evening as the music was really great, at least some of the pieces were very long of playing so I guess I have to make this long story into short- 'Erhu Rhapsody No.4' and 'The Carefree Journey' were the longest pieces I ever heard before, yet I almost fell asleep during the concert. 'Erhu Rhapsody No.4' was base historical story,"Wei Ji Returns Han" which was story about a lady that filled with misfortune. It was played solo on erhu that was why this piece was so long as this contained four movements, Prelude,Chaos of War, Hatred and Love and lastly, Emotion and Responsibility.
'The Carefree Journey', was also a long play but at least had three movements- Mountains, Clouds and Market in the Mountain Village. This piece was recomposed about the wonderful place in the universal which date back as many as two thousand years ago.'The First North West Suite' has the four movement parts in this piece. However, for the night concert, they played at least the last two movements, Thinking of my Dearest and The Stone Slab Waist Drum. The most interesting pieces were 'The Worship', 'The Carefree Journey' and 'The North West Suite' Why? Well, worthy to listen them after all. Espleasing one of the movement pieces from 'The North West Suite'. 'The Worship' was the music piece of so called ceremony of worship in the countryside. During the inter-break, both of us had our sandwhichs with us for dinner. It was just homemake sandwhichs. And we had to eat at outside from the concert hall.
Well, after the performation concert, my older sister loves some of music so much, she asked dad about the CD of orchestra so that she can burn out into MP3 songs indeed. Ha ha ha ha.... glad that she's not so tried about the music after all. X>
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