Hi there, so long haven't blog in for sometimes so this time I will post out just for you guys........
Anyway, I just went not once but three times for the Singapore Chinese Orchestra(SCO) concerts this year just before any happens(you know about the doomsday coming around conner....*sign*).
You see, my father had this illness on his foot caused for him to be send to hospital not once but twice(the second one was caused by unknown allergy medicine) last July. So this time, I went alone for the SCO concerts at least few times now.
The October concert was the Esplanade's 10 Anniversary since 2002 open then. The concert was the Singapore folk songs which was really popular at the 1980s to 1990s before 21st centenary. Singapore folk song which is known as Xin You. It was interesting to know about the Singapore music in this country.
Before that, on 5th Sept 2012, was the Strings Harmony-An Erhu Recital by SCO which was part of the Chinese Chamber Music. The concert was taken place at the studio in Esplanade. It was the one night concert perfoming by erhu players from SCO group, Tian Xiao and Gu Huai Yan. So far the best songs are Czardas which was about the recruitment in Hungary and Erhu Rhapsody No.3( which is one of the popular song for music lovers and musicians due to the 2003 Golden Bell Award).When the Rivers Thaw in Spring:Movement 1 was pretty nice song but not as sleepy as this song, Reflection of the Moon on Erquan. Crap!
And lastly, I went the SCO Concert Hall on 3rd of Nov for the A night with George Gao. It was second night of the two day concert. Talk about George Gao, he was Gemini-award winner from Canada and now a world-renowned erhu performer and a renaissance man who has written and arranged music for movies, television programmes and Broadway musical. He also did collaborated with Grammy award muit-winner artist and composer Brian Keane. His recently worked was the soundtrack for the three-part documentary, Becoming American-The Chinese Experience for USA network, PBS. He also wrote music pieces of erhu series; Erhu Capriccio, Erhu Capriccio No.2-Mongolian Fantasy, Erhu Capriccio No.3-Dazzling Movement and Erhu Capriccio No.4-Gobi Fantasy which was recently one for this year Shanghai Spring International Music Festival. The Capriccio No.4 and The Moon on High was most interesting music that I never heard of before hand. And The Silk Road was really great as this song was based about famous road known as Silk Road or Kumtag in China.
That's all I had for now. Next time round will post up on up coming programme really soon(thought I haven't decide on what to do on next......).
Thanks.....
