tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387196632024-03-07T16:23:46.658+08:00 Musical Musings~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-88910980384289400142011-09-24T21:10:00.000+08:002011-09-24T21:10:20.694+08:00A Survivor from Warsaw, Op.46<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-GB</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>ZH-CN</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hi friends of AAI333, here's my listening analysis of one of Schoenberg's masterpieces, A Survivor from Warsaw, Op.46. I have no reason for choosing this piece, just went to YouTube to find something that is very alien to me. And yes, this took me over a day to digest!!!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Video References</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGWai0SEpUQ"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A Survivor from Warsaw, played by Bamberger Symphoniker, conducted by Horst Stein</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(I will be using the Horst Stein recording for all video timing as reference)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFXkc9AGoeU&feature=related">A Survivor from Warsaw, played by (unknown), conducted by Simon Rattle</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: red;">Background Info</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Title: <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A Survivor from Warsaw, Op.46</span><br />
Date composed: 11-23 August 1947<br />
Date performed: 4th Nov 1948 by Albuquerque Civic Symphony Orchestra, Kurt Frederick conductor</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: red;">Narration Text</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I cannot remember everything. I must have been unconscious most of the time. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I remember only the grandiose moment when they all started to sing, as if prearranged, the old prayer they had neglected for so many years - the forgotten creed!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But I have no recollection how I got underground to live in the sewers of Warsaw for so long a time. The day began as usual: Reveille when it still was dark. "Get out!" Whether you slept or whether worries kept you awake the whole night. You had been separated from your children, from your wife, from your parents. You don't know what happened to them... How could you sleep?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The trumpets again - "Get out! The sergeant will be furious!" They came out; some very slowly, the old ones, the sick ones; some with nervous agility. They fear the sergeant. They hurry as much as they can. In vain! Much too much noise, much too much commotion! And not fast enough! The Feldwebel shouts: "Achtung! Stilljestanden! Na wird's mal! Oder soll ich mit dem Jewehrkolben nachhelfen? Na jut; wenn ihrs durchaus haben wollt!" ("Attention! Stand still! How about it, or should I help you along with the butt of my rifle? Oh well, if you really want to have it!")</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The sergeant and his subordinates hit (everyone): young or old, (strong or sick), quiet, guilty or innocent ...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It was painful to hear them groaning and moaning.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I heard it though I had been hit very hard, so hard that I could not help falling down. We all on the (ground) who could not stand up were (then) beaten over the head...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I must have been unconscious. The next thing I heard was a soldier saying: "They are all dead!"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Whereupon the sergeant ordered to do away with us.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There I lay aside half conscious. I had become very still - fear and pain. Then I heard the sergeant shouting: „Abzählen!“ ("Count off!")</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They start slowly and irregularly: one, two, three, four - "Achtung!" The sergeant shouted again, "Rascher! Nochmals von vorn anfange! In einer Minute will ich wissen, wieviele ich zur Gaskammer abliefere! Abzählen!“ ("Faster! Once more, start from the beginning! In one minute I want to know how many I am going to send off to the gas chamber! Count off!")</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They began again, first slowly: one, two, three, four, became faster and faster, so fast that it finally sounded like a stampede of wild horses, and (all) of a sudden, in the middle of it, they began singing the Shema Yisroel.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">My listening (and analytical) attempts: </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">General musical perceptions</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The first listen of A Survivor from Warsaw got my ears tuned to the timbre of sound associated with the events being described in the narration. In general, I hear sounds of woodwinds and low strings tremolo provide a dreamy or confused feeling at the time of semi-consciousness or recollection in a blur state (seen at the beginning of narration). Very brassy tones of the trumpets and percussions (snare drum) support the hostile gestures of the German soldiers treating the narrator’s character. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As the description of the realistic recount became more intense, the music followed suit. A particular example was at 3:30-4:00, as the narrator became more agitated from his “recollection” of the pain of hearing the “groaning and moaning”. There was use of high screaming trumpet and violin notes to support the build in the narrator’s agitated description of others, preceding a sudden drop in energy as he continued the description about himself at the time when he heard the groans.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The percussions seemed to help liven up the imagery of the descriptions. The hitting of the cymbal with the stick and the striking of the gong (4:14 - 4:24) fitted the sounds of the soldiers beating the prisoners on the head and them falling to the ground respectively.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The realism of the narration was supported by the interesting use of three languages – what I eventually found out to be English, German and Hebrew. English was used by the narrator, a Jewish prisoner and German was used by the German soldier, as recounted by the narrator. As the narrator agonised the prisoners singing the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shema Yisroel, </i>a Jewish prayer, a male chorus started singing the prayer, in its original language of Hebrew, presumably before they were executed (inferred from the abrupt ending of the piece). I did not know the significance of the chorus at initial listen, but instead thought it was about some procession (which reminded me somewhat to Duel of the Fates from Star Wars). This occurred as I could not hear the last words of the narrator as he was becoming drowned out by the orchestra. After some reference to the lyrics I began to realise the chorus section formed part of the description of what the narrator “heard”.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Meter and rhythms</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I believed the piece to be in free time, especially of the narration as I could not feel any constant pulse present. Rhythm also sounded random, which made me question if the score was notated typically in western notation. Upon looking at the score, I realised that the score was in simple quadruple meter, but with various changes in tempo. It also had very intricate rhythms, so varied that it made the piece sound like it was in free time.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Structure/Themes</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I made it through the first listen without any clue of what the structure of the piece is, and after multiple listens and eventual viewing of the score, I could only come to a conclusion that the piece is structured into three segments: instrumental, narration and chorus. </span></div><ul><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Instrumental: 11 bars</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Narration: 69 bars (1 bar overlap with chorus)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Chorus: 20 bars (1 bar overlap with narration)</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Through more listening attempts, I began to become more convinced that the piece was designed to be more thematic to suit the (length of the) narrator’s recount rather than a regular structured form, the most obvious theme being played by the trumpets in a 4-note motif which seem to represent the shouting German soldiers, or at least the harsh nature of them, as heard in the opening. Apart from the trumpet motif to introduce the German soldiers, they are also portrayed by tense, scurrying passages, tremolos, and fast string pizzicatos and other loud sections.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A succeeding motif after the trumpet one is the snare, played quickly and suddenly before fading off in the distance, as though warning shots are being fired by the Germans to scare the prisoners into submission.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Melodic/Harmonic Structure</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I could not pick out any standard repeated melody or harmony, but I eventually figured that the 12-tone technique was used, since Schoenberg invented the method to compose. Looking at the score both vertically and horizontally, there were instances where all 12 tones were used within the bar (e.g. bar 1, 10, 14, 15, etc.) and multiple sets of 12 tones were used in a bar (e.g. bars 16 and 17 within each crotchet beat).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After some painstaking counting of tones in some sections of the score, I have reason to believe that hexachords are being used within 2 different lines. This is seen in bars 18-21 (and 22), where the strings and harp form a hexachord while the horn line completes the two-series form, as stated by Lester to be known as a hexachordal combinatoriality. This two-series form is then moved along different instruments in bars 22 to 24.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The narration section, to my surprise, also has notation according to the pitch and rhythm of how the narration should be spoken. Schoenberg has cleverly notated the narration rhythm such that it is very realistic to an actual conversational speech. The pitches notated contains no clefs - which makes me conclude that the pitches are not made to be accurate in terms of tuning, but rather for the speaker to be instructed specifically to how the intonation of the narration should be expressed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Conclusion</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A Survivor from Warsaw may sound like a typical 20<sup>th</sup> Century piece that is very “usual” to a passing ear, but is extremely difficult to perform. The wide angular leaps demanded of many of the instruments to hit notes of every tone in the scale would require very high level of the player’s tuning capabilities. The demands of every rhythm are also not easy to achieve, despite having a simple 4/4 time signature.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The 12-tone technique used by Schoenberg, fused together with the suitable timbre of sounds to represent different emotions and levels of energy of the narration makes the piece a very complex masterpiece. It is of no wonder that, by the sheer degree of energy in this piece, Schoenberg returned to accept his Jewish identity after converting to Lutheranism in his early adulthood.</span></div>~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-80973078379116157482011-09-11T00:51:00.031+08:002011-09-25T14:29:12.524+08:00The Power of the Perfect FifthHi Dr. Chong and friends from AAI333, this post shall be regarding my article review on the journal titled Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony: A Soviet Artist's Reply...?, written by J. Daniel Huband.<br />
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As you can see from the title, I'll be analysing the music of Shostakovich, with particular reference to the 1st and final movements. I initially wanted to explore only the finale but upon some reading and listening, I have realised the depth of scope of the opening movement and for those of you who know me better, you know I love music with plots, influences and storylines behind them! So if any of you guys want a copy of the journal being reviewed do let me know!<br />
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<div style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> Some Recording and Video References</span></b></div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH764k1mMmE">Symphony 5 (1st movement) conducted by Bernard Haitink, London Philharmonic Orchestra (Part 1) </a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8as7m31QmOs&feature=related">Symphony 5 (1st movement) conducted by Bernard Haitink, London Philharmonic Orchestra (Part 2) </a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slsi4SBrTV8&feature=related">Symphony 5 (full length) conducted by Georg Solti, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra 1993 Live </a><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGI936ViabI">Symphony 5 (finale) conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra</a> (very interesting conductor, some of you girls may like ;p )<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogJFXqYEYd8">Symphony 5 (finale) conducted by Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic Orchestra 1979</a> <br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0iqZbM1Pdc">Symphony 5 (finale) conducted by Evgeny Mravinsky, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhRLgWvu_kg&feature=related">Symphony 5 (finale) conducted by Evgeny Mravinsky, London Philharmonic Orchestra 1983 Live</a> <br />
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<a href="http://video.pbs.org/video/1295305133">Shostakovich Symphony No.5 Documantary: Keeping Score (Michael Tilson Thomas & San Francisco SO)</a><br />
<a href="http://www.keepingscore.org/interactive/pages/shostakovich/inv-march">Various Tempo of the Finale Coda</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Background Info</span></b></div>Title: Symphony No.5 in D minor, Opus 47<br />
Date composed: Apr-July 1937<br />
Date performed: 21st Nov 1937 by Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Evgeny Mravinsky conductor<br />
Reception: Standing ovation for over half an hour<br />
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<b style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Other Works Cited in the Article</span></b><br />
Opus 10 - Symphony No.1 in F minor (1924)<br />
Opus 11 - Prelude and Scherzo for string octet (1924)<br />
Opus 12 - Piano Sonata No.1 (1926)<br />
Opus 13 - "Aphorisms", Ten pieces for piano (1927)<br />
Opus 14 - Symphony No. 2 in B major, <i>To October </i>(1927)<br />
Opus 20 - Symphony No. 3 in Eb major, <i>First of May </i>(1929)<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Opus 29 </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">- Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District </span>(1930)<br />
Opus 34 - Cello Sonata in D minor (1934)<br />
Opus 43 - Symphony No. 4 in C minor (1935)<br />
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</b></span></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Review of the 5th Symphony</b></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What comes to mind at the first listen of the 5<sup>th</sup> symphony? Heroism and triumph over adversity? Oppression & anxiety? Or something darker in an ambiguous state with an eventual epiphany? Huband takes a closer look at the 5<sup>th</sup> in stylistic and historical comparison to his earlier works and political events that led to Shostakovich’s rise to fame in Soviet Russia.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Events prior to the 5<sup>th</sup> Symphony</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Contrary to popular belief, Huband sways away from the notion that the 5<sup>th</sup> symphony was written largely as a response to the harsh criticisms made by Pravda (the leading newspaper of Soviet Russia then) on his 1930 opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, op.29. A public denunciation by the leading newspaper could warrant severe punishment or even a death sentence (as witnessed in the Terror). Pravda slammed the opera as “coarse and vulgar”, which directly resulted in a loss in commission and income – a serious blow for a composer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Huband takes us through a journey from the composition of Shostakovich’s Symphonies, with prominence given to the tonal boundaries shaping his first symphony. With its “acceptable” and known forms governing the common 4-movement structure and avoided heavy orchestration, he goes on to support with historical information of the symphony being a graduation composition from his conservatory, pointing also to a lack of composing maturity.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">However, Shostakovich’s style drastically changes in his next works, first heard evidently in the Scherzo of the Opus11. His subsequent symphonies undergo heavy experimentation as he explores new styles: incorporation of contemporary texts in his second and third symphonies, single-movement form, and large melodic intervals used in the 3<sup>rd</sup> symphony – a foreshadowing of the opening movement of the 5<sup>th</sup> symphony. The Cello Sonata, Opus40, is directly acompared to the 5<sup>th</sup> symphony in similarities of key, 4-movement structure, form and texture of the first two movements of both works.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It is clearly supported from an analytical perspective that the Fifth is a combination of the tonality concepts as Shostakovich has mastered in his First, the experimentations of orchestration and development of themes in the subsequent symphonies, and textures from his Cello Sonata.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The First Movement</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Most importantly, Huband explains the Fifth and its idiosyncrasies. Despite its critical acclaim at the premiere, most probably due to the “triumphant” coda of the finale, there were instances suggesting contrary to the eventual “heroic” end. Similar to the first symphony, the Fifth incorporates a 4-movement structure, with harmonies totally within a tonal context. The opening movement utilises a sonata form, with the general mood of calm (1<sup>st</sup> and 2<sup>nd</sup> subject presentations), ensuing struggle (development), catastrophe (recapitulation), and ambiguity (leading into the coda), as well described by Tim Souster in his journal <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shostakovich at the Crossroads</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Fig1: Opening Theme Fig2: Primary Subject Fig3: Secondary Subject</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir1-s03JjTRjbliWNT7ParyO0RKqXcHKjNUhycFzG3qtPKzXkuQd8EjRSoOQXGp8Dsu6CY5slcMKF-CHkTmbFtxiQR3UaOwj7bltpcdSdCFY3CHJ_d5rcr8Z3A8tHqKMp4xe5BaQ/s1600/Fig1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir1-s03JjTRjbliWNT7ParyO0RKqXcHKjNUhycFzG3qtPKzXkuQd8EjRSoOQXGp8Dsu6CY5slcMKF-CHkTmbFtxiQR3UaOwj7bltpcdSdCFY3CHJ_d5rcr8Z3A8tHqKMp4xe5BaQ/s200/Fig1.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhTbnVDDssOx3BzCd1yoKtyfRpQhQE4j-ZjwtzK-ENmTdDPf1vAauOhOfFd-AZXIQhS_v4aHlwCYgEeDrxiNXmyrYgO8K7GMAlCF_VlMc3eRBEtJVAv6zdZTwLKG-xmB7dERnIjw/s1600/Fig3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhTbnVDDssOx3BzCd1yoKtyfRpQhQE4j-ZjwtzK-ENmTdDPf1vAauOhOfFd-AZXIQhS_v4aHlwCYgEeDrxiNXmyrYgO8K7GMAlCF_VlMc3eRBEtJVAv6zdZTwLKG-xmB7dERnIjw/s200/Fig3.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPaP8-kDONOhe8NWXygaXUY6e_azvqukQEqnLGzeefPClD7loWmKEMO-0UOSnCClA3vQGaSt0IH0FVQLGhnqlsybE2lw1W6ng4s-rh9epvaJHvVgjnoA0Gzw9uQ-4gRZ3ikSsiXw/s1600/Fig2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPaP8-kDONOhe8NWXygaXUY6e_azvqukQEqnLGzeefPClD7loWmKEMO-0UOSnCClA3vQGaSt0IH0FVQLGhnqlsybE2lw1W6ng4s-rh9epvaJHvVgjnoA0Gzw9uQ-4gRZ3ikSsiXw/s200/Fig2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The opening theme (Fig1) dissipates into the first subject (Fig2), heard within the first minute of the Bernard Haitink YouTube link part 1, and the second subject (Fig3) is first heard at 5:18. The first and second subjects are heard in later sections of the movement in a different manner. This is suggested by Souster as a “dual” theme, where a theme is presented in very contrasting styles suggesting, my opinion, a double personality being presented, most probably with reference to Shostakovich being forced to write in a particular style against his own. The contrasted first theme is presented by the seemingly parody-like trumpets in the middle of the movement (Fig4, 2:04 of Haitink Part 2 video), and once more at the ambiguous conclusion by the flute (Fig5, 7:27 of Part 2). The second subject is contrasted by one of the most melodious flute and horn passages Shostakovich has composed (Fig6, 5:10 of Part 2).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Fig4: Contrasted 1st Subject Fig5: Ambiguous Conclusion Fig6: Contrasted 2nd Subject</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhclRsVW59InWeO-mDPJTbXC-eF8C4qpdjbomrZ9-SjyC-BSfsSMbFmkJYghY0xZke64eK0sueHhoUPd_M8I4JZ1OS9pAiYHfENI-u8N3hsW5NONzMNiht0q72Fx7FFinguQxs4Kw/s1600/Fig6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhclRsVW59InWeO-mDPJTbXC-eF8C4qpdjbomrZ9-SjyC-BSfsSMbFmkJYghY0xZke64eK0sueHhoUPd_M8I4JZ1OS9pAiYHfENI-u8N3hsW5NONzMNiht0q72Fx7FFinguQxs4Kw/s200/Fig6.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0L0eRvfRRy9QNiDa5-NveMwPCQzTtCqaTu5ptEznGd7WpVgOJFJTbL6oOH6fwQn1mtbGrAstniBj-3XDFst09dNjtnOjg2wjGHIH5VB9tC7CWAoqwnpRlN0PoXJmlz2MUSwkvdQ/s1600/Fig4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0L0eRvfRRy9QNiDa5-NveMwPCQzTtCqaTu5ptEznGd7WpVgOJFJTbL6oOH6fwQn1mtbGrAstniBj-3XDFst09dNjtnOjg2wjGHIH5VB9tC7CWAoqwnpRlN0PoXJmlz2MUSwkvdQ/s200/Fig4.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh68rRFRu1nnuxkK4lnWa6jERwgBaIKoPkzpKu4IDWP4eZ5IYON9wiq7wSxJjv2apDq6f0QaESvmljkoijo_FvdjCSUWOM_o2r5STnvJJIBC0VRqxA_FDklgXNwVwbKPJoA5atmKg/s1600/Fig5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh68rRFRu1nnuxkK4lnWa6jERwgBaIKoPkzpKu4IDWP4eZ5IYON9wiq7wSxJjv2apDq6f0QaESvmljkoijo_FvdjCSUWOM_o2r5STnvJJIBC0VRqxA_FDklgXNwVwbKPJoA5atmKg/s200/Fig5.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Coda of the Finale</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Another area of concern is the metronome marking of the coda of the Finale. Many ponder the actual intended speed of the coda. Boosey & Hawkes printed the coda as crotchet=188, a very fast tempo which makes the coda sound triumphant (Fig7). This was also seen in the first few editions of scores back then in the 1930s. Souster makes no mention but states:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">… probably due to a large extent to faulty readings by conductors who refuse to adhere to Shostakovich's detailed metronome markings. The movement can, if it starts at the right tempo, be made to build up to a completely convincing 'triumphant' coda. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And Huband:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">For many years conductors have tended to perform the last movement much faster than indicated. The finale, however, does not sound 'heroic' if the metronome markings of the composer are followed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Fig7: Coda</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibVOSsxhqDU6N3kCYc3ikdUT4jEXCaVUh1nim5AJC351cLvicCjCMI389E-EwKm_7uPwlIhy-MjOla2DWOqBrONVNmgtvZYJ_8z05ssRSA-iIAyFT5uo8PMZuvcIc3NrASlaQ1wA/s1600/Fig7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibVOSsxhqDU6N3kCYc3ikdUT4jEXCaVUh1nim5AJC351cLvicCjCMI389E-EwKm_7uPwlIhy-MjOla2DWOqBrONVNmgtvZYJ_8z05ssRSA-iIAyFT5uo8PMZuvcIc3NrASlaQ1wA/s200/Fig7.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Although the premiere was played at a slow speed distinctly closer to the tempo quaver=188 (I infer this from the documentary link above Keeping Score, which said that Mravinsky conducted the piece and maintained his interpretation all his life at 2:25, cross-referenced to the Mravinsky YouTube videos), the two writers make no mention of the blatant print of the Boosey & Hawkes score, but mentioned that some conductors refuse or tend to perform much faster than stated (as heard in the Bernstein and Dudamel YouTube videos), which ultimately changed the meaning of the symphony. Piecing all the information gathered, I believe that they were unaware of the misprinting in the scores but tap their knowledge based on the interpretation of the premiere. Despite this, I agree with Huband’s notion of the intended slow speed of the coda to sound excruciating rather than triumphant. Refer to the Various Tempo of the Finale Coda for the difference in some samples of tempo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A fine example to note in Shostakovich's "colossal" ending is the 3-note motif also present in the first movement. Refer to the Documentary at 51:10 onwards. This very subtle relation demonstrates a very high level of coherence in composition, supporting Huband's stance of Shostakovich's mature writing of this symphony.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Conclusion</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In conclusion, I still believe that the Pravda incident played a very large role in the eventual soundscape of the Fifth, but with a smaller role of the composer’s maturity in writing as well, as well argued by Huband. He has given a good historical viewpoint which influenced the composer’s writing skills, and using that skill to write a symphony in response to his denunciation. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He attributed the work’s success to the coherent thematic development, which, as analysed, revealed an underlying message of dual personality supported by Souster, and unseen by the Russian authorities. The work’s success was also due to the “triumphant” ending, which contains no folk/nationalistic ideas (a requirement of an ideal symphony), but a seemingly heroic conclusion. Analysis of the coda with the help of Souster and Michael Tilson Thomas in the Keeping Score documentary has provided some useful insight to the true meaning within the summing up of a masterpiece.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Hope you guys enjoyed the read! If you have time do watch the whole documentary... It's very revealing if you're interested in Shostakovich's symphony! </span></div>~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-19049750101278666072009-10-31T18:31:00.001+08:002009-11-01T13:22:15.978+08:00Easy Come, Easy Go!!!<span style="color: blue;">Hi I'm continuing the analysis. Sorry to all who have read and felt that its incomplete.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: red; font-size: 130%;">Phrasing</span></strong><br />
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These first 2 lines make up a sentence, our favourite short-short-long phrase:<br />
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<em><span style="color: #660000;">Mama, just killed a man. Put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger now he’s dead</span></em><br />
(Short___)(Short________) (Long_________________________________)<br />
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<em><span style="color: #660000;">Mama, life had just begun. But now I've gone and thrown it all away</span></em><br />
(Short______)(Short_____) (Long______________________)<br />
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These two sentences feel that they have relatively "perfect" authentic cadences even though the first ends on the dominant (F major in Bbmaj key) and the second being tonicized to become the dominant of the new key of Ebmaj. I'll attempt to explain this.<br />
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The original recording goes like that: "<em><span style="color: #660000;">throw it all <u>AWAY</u></span></em>"<br />
"<em><span style="color: #660000;">away</span></em>" is the F major chord, a dominant of the current Bbmaj key. The bass then descends from Ab down to G and then *poof* we're in Eb major! I treat that G as chord III of the new key and if you play it out, GBD, one can feel the tendency to want to resolve to Chord I, Ebmaj.<br />
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This explains why I added a Bb octave after the G to create a more "dominant" feel to want to resolve strongly to I. This is very very common in orchestral bass parts especially the timpani where it is usually tuned to 4ths or 5ths apart to have a strong "soh" to "doh" feeling.<br />
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Now, in Eb maj, the phrase becomes a longer but Simple period.<br />
<em><span style="color: #660000;">Mama, ooh. __Didn't mean to make you cry. If I'm not back again this time tomorrow.</span></em><br />
(Antecendent) (Consequent_____________________________________)<br />
<em><span style="color: #660000;">Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters</span></em><br />
(I wont count this in as part of the phrase because its an extension to go back to Bbmaj, 2nd verse)<br />
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Same goes for the Bbmaj section of 2nd verse. But as for the modulation its slightly different because of the guitar solo. There is no modulation back to Bb major again.<br />
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<em><span style="color: #660000;">Mama, oooooooh (Anyway the wind blows)</span></em><br />
(Antecendent____________________)<br />
<em><span style="color: #660000;">I don't want to die I Sometimes wish I'd never been born at all</span></em><br />
(Consequent__________________________________)<br />
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The guitar solo ensues, with two 4-bar phrases that shape the ascending and descending contours of the melody before transforming into a rather anti-climatic A major commencing the operatic section. (I used to think this was a climax of the piece but after listening to the Mnozil Brass version, I realised it was rather anti-climatic. Mnozil Brass made that anti-climax very explicit)<br />
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I lightly touch on the phrases for the ever-popular opera section:<br />
The whole sections is made up of "call and respose" phrases which are also antecedent/consequent phrases. Here are some examples<br />
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<em><span style="color: #660000;">I see a little silhouetto of a man Scaramouch, Scaramouch, will you do the Fandango</span></em><br />
(Antecendent________________) (Consequent________________________)<br />
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(This is a double period, or part of it can be seen as a sentence)<br />
<em><span style="color: #660000;">(Galileo) Galileo (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro Magnifico-o-o-o-o</span></em><br />
(short_______)(short_______) (Long___________________) >> Sentence<br />
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(a____)(c____)(a____)(c____)(A_______)(C____________)<br />
(Antecendent______________) (Consequent______________) >> Double period<br />
The phrase is not equally balanced though because of a 3/4 bar at MAGNIFICO!<br />
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<em><span style="color: #660000;">I'm just a poor boy nobody loves me He's just a poor boy from a poor family</span></em><br />
(Antecedent___________________) (Consequent___________________)<br />
<em><span style="color: #660000;">Spare him his life from this monstrosity</span></em><br />
(This is sort of a phrase extension)<br />
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one more...<br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><em>So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye</em> </span><span style="color: black;">(Antecedent)</span><br />
<em><span style="color: #660000;">So you think you can love me and leave me to die</span></em> (Consequent)<br />
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so thats for phrases.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Counterpoint/Themes</span></strong><br />
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I'd say that there is not much counterpoint present in the piece, if you take counterpoint to be an equal to the melody. The piece is actually very thematic, consisting of random fragments put together to become a masterpiece, or some may call it, random rhyming nonsense.<br />
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However, there is a particular counterpoint present in the Mnozil Brass version that moved me. When the lead trumpetter sang the 2nd verse, the trombonist stepped out and sang a counterpoint that was quite pleasant sounding!<br />
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Here are some themes I picked out from the original recording:<br />
<ol><li>The very 1st fragment of the iconic piano accompaniment the beginning of verse 1, Bb F Bb D G_ F_, is quietly introduced in the intro if you listen carefully to the piano part at "<em><span style="color: #660000;">open your eyes</span></em>". It does not contain the same notes but the underlying feeling of the motif is present.</li>
<li>The 1st fragment of another popular descending chromatic theme comes in right after that when they hold the "<em><span style="color: #660000;">see</span></em>" in "<em><span style="color: #660000;">Look up to the skies and see</span></em>" played by the piano: Eb G Bb <u>C Eb Bb Eb. </u>This theme is heard extended at parts like the modulation back to Bbmaj right before the 2nd verse played by the piano (C Eb Bb Eb A Eb Ab Eb), in the operatic section right before "<em><span style="color: #660000;">easy come, easy go</span></em>" by the piano again and is last heard at the end of the piece before the gong is sounded in F major (D F C F B F Bb F). I thought it was damn funny when Mnozil brass sang it as "<em><span style="color: #660000;">woa woa woa</span></em>" right before the 2nd verse.</li>
<li>"<em><span style="color: #660000;">Because I'm Easy come, Easy go</span></em>" is the first time this 'mysterious' sounding fragment is presented before it appears again only in the operatic section at parts like "<em><span style="color: #660000;">I see a little silhouetto</span></em>...", "<em><span style="color: #660000;">I'm just a poor boy nobody</span></em>..." and "<em><span style="color: #660000;">Easy come easy go will you let me go</span></em>?".</li>
<li>A particular section of lyrics is also quite thematic. "<em><span style="color: #660000;">Anyway the wind blows</span></em>" is heard in the intro, in the 2nd verse as an echo sung with the material of theme 1, and lastly at the very end. It seems very thematic because the lyric does not seem to imply any particular meaning and does not seem to have any relation to what is going on, except that it did not really matter to him.</li>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>Form</strong></span><br />
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I think its quite impossible to give a proper form for this piece. But here it is:<br />
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Introduction<br />
Verse 1<br />
Verse 2 (followed by linking guitar solo)<br />
Operatic section<br />
Hard rock secion (In Eb maj, before "<em><span style="color: #660000;">so you think you can stone me</span></em>...")<br />
Coda<br />
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But if I must give it strict letterings then it shall be... er... AA'BCD?<br />
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Yup I think that's about all I have to say =)<br />
~Pianist is wEird~~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-80838364329994333382009-10-04T12:45:00.001+08:002009-11-01T13:29:29.874+08:00Is that your real life?<u><strong><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Analysis for Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody </span></strong></u><br />
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</strong></u>Here are some youtube links to some rather interesting interpretations and arrangements for Bohemian Rhapsody:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irp8CNj9qBI">The original music video</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oozJH6jSr2U">Live at Wembley</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBLm747tyn0">Mnozil Brass’s interpretation</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6mZvsWHs4M">Just for Laughs</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aT9kG7o_SE">The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs-TkMt5QSY&feature=related">The Queen Symphony</a> (also by RPO) This Epic is a 6 movement symphony. BR is featured in the 5th mvt.<br />
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Score for viewing: its mine so there’s no copyright!<br />
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<a href="http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/q/queen/bohemian_rhapsody.html">Lyrics </a><br />
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<strong><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">An introduction to BR:</span><br />
</strong><span style="color: #000099;">The piece was written by lead singer of rock band Queen, Freddie Mercury, and is from the album “A Night at the Opera”. An intriguing piece that was never expected to become a worldwide hit, shot to fame and was stuck at the top of the UK singles charts for 9 weeks. Though many critics slammed the piece as being a ‘superficial’, meaningless random rhyming nonsense, it turned out that the general audience thought otherwise.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">The birth of a rhapsody:</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: #000099;">Said to be “all in Freddie’s mind” long before Queen got down composing the piece proper, most of the piece’s skeleton was written in Freddie’s home. He played the ballad section to his producer and suddenly stopped, saying, “This is where the opera section comes in!”<br />
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</span><strong><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">About the piece:</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: #000099;">BR boasts an unusual style that leans more towards classical influences rather than mainstream pop music of the 80s era. Unlike the typical (verse-chorus X 2), bridge, chorus, coda form, the piece takes on an unusual structure – introduction, ballad, (bridging) guitar solo, an operatic segment, a hard rock section and a coda. There are suggestions (eventually confirmed by Brian May) that the piece had references to Freddie’s personal concealed problems and traumas. Till today, the band is still protective of the piece’s secret meanings. Some interpretations state that the piece was a story about a man who killed someone and sold his soul to the devil, similar to the fictitious German legend, Faust. Right before his execution, he cries out to God in Arabic, Bismillah! (Basmala) and is saved by angels from the devil, Shaitan.<br />
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For those who speculate the piece having a more in-depth meaning revolving around Freddie’s life, some believe that the piece was an emotional cry for freedom from despair. It was notably written in 1975, the turning point of Freddie’s life. He had been living with Mary Austin, his girlfriend, for seven years and was just involved in his first gay love affair. Words like “Mama” could have referred to Mother Mary… Mary Austin, and “Mama Mia let me go” with the connotations of wanting to break free from the relationship.</span><br />
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</span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>About the piece’s musical structure:</strong></span><br />
I shall comment on the first verse (<em><span style="color: #660000;">Mama, just killed a man – carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters</span></em>). Starting on the strong tonic (T) in the key of Bb major by the bass guitar, there is a tonic extension involved that is 2 bars long. This is the part where Freddie crosses his hands to play the G followed by F twice, followed by entry of the lyric “mama”. Immediately after that is the Predominant (PD), a vi – ii – ii chord with lyric “<em><span style="color: #660000;">killed a man. Put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger now he’s” “dead</span>”</em> is the Dominant chord (D) at F major. Thus the progression is I – vi – ii – V – I (where I is shared with the next phrase)<br />
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This STUPID BLOGGER simply cannot understand spaces. I guess I have to notate by using '_'.<br />
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Here’s the next phrase:<br />
<em><span style="color: #660000;">Mama, life had just begun. But now I've gone and thrown it all away____</span></em><br />
<span style="color: #993399;">Bb: I _______ vi __________ ii ____________ vi _______ V6 – v6<br />
__(T)______ (PD)________________________________ (D)</span><br />
<span style="color: #993399;"><br />
</span>Next is a modulation to subdominant major, Eb major.<br />
<em><span style="color: #660000;">Mama, ooh. Didn't mean to make you cry. If I'm not back again this time tomorrow</span></em><br />
<span style="color: #993399;">Eb: I __ vi _______ ii ________________ V ______________________ I<br />
__(T)_ (PD)_______________________ (D)_____________________ (T)______<br />
<em></em></span><br />
<em><span style="color: #660000;">Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters<br />
</span></em><span style="color: #993399;">_____V6____ vi _____ <strong>iv</strong> _________ I____<br />
_______________ (tonic extension)_______</span><br />
<span style="color: #993399;"></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: black;">The minor iv used was to enhance the music and produce a sort of 'sad' resolution back to tonic. I didn't notice this but I guess this is how "Amen" in minor sounds like!</span><br />
Just something interesting I found out while researching this piece: The climax of the piece after the hard rock section has an ascending mixolydian scale! (During a climatic guitar solo section which is after the lyric "Just gotta get right out of here" or somewhere around 4:45 of the original music video) Cool stuff!<br />
Any way the wind blows.<br />
~Pianist is wEird~~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-43375198538938014472008-08-23T13:38:00.000+08:002008-08-23T13:50:02.917+08:00Day 04 Pictures...<br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpDBVxeA1No25aEIFNPBlhJwFZ8EBlLPDa-jhFVGEpwxC6xf065gF2fSG3rySAjq12-6pCx2zx6VnnHR_chyphenhyphenM4ruNrpE-0MT2A0CahtTUOdEkZtQdd8ERbfnNScmFgMv4nj2bPWQ/s1600-h/P1030249.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 201px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpDBVxeA1No25aEIFNPBlhJwFZ8EBlLPDa-jhFVGEpwxC6xf065gF2fSG3rySAjq12-6pCx2zx6VnnHR_chyphenhyphenM4ruNrpE-0MT2A0CahtTUOdEkZtQdd8ERbfnNScmFgMv4nj2bPWQ/s200/P1030249.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237585449782922498" border="0" /></a><br /> <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);">Morning fog at Georges V</span><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggnILW8pzxEx1cETFSdjt51K2PxAfJXl3UQyF0FDojWvvBtgyMf8a-PdSr8xWXo0Pl0Cd06yK5y4almw_O7LHjXC-M1E3pqelbz1yBh15PkK1pEPMNyCxTBAs1dsuGMb7vXpFQXA/s1600-h/P1030250.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKSBl2yazpTZXJv1buFr_eEKY4XNGfylY_JrmWqxNF5ALkIcKxJPcg5lCLixZm2Vqs8Bd_MC0R1eQn-3QWh7ORCMM5MH4u9ovBbmbO_FrMTrgArXdq5nJj7l1XJsesQu0zFdFfqw/s200/P1030278.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237579381751727522" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The hockey scoreboard...</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHiDDr-yHQPGsalWcDoCuk6tivpm7sDrJeKL0shPBT-CuTDNK8zzyP3j-u2tAXWrAFvz9FwGCa_10HqTQjdtRdaB1MLtV5shKgP2Vcu2kS5RD7g4RxxW4ZQfENOkcT9IxuKpxRsw/s1600-h/P1030279.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHiDDr-yHQPGsalWcDoCuk6tivpm7sDrJeKL0shPBT-CuTDNK8zzyP3j-u2tAXWrAFvz9FwGCa_10HqTQjdtRdaB1MLtV5shKgP2Vcu2kS5RD7g4RxxW4ZQfENOkcT9IxuKpxRsw/s200/P1030279.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237579262674440914" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvTchPN2j7WyFKF581YpyGungf3E9BMrHwWwzSAkXnc1mY0094-IYugvfIYjPGERkbJ7Df3MmJADlo0n6CRte5-aKwejPmKk6QMkyGUln_f0f-QFVxmz_1UMQZ04pNxs9QFdyPgg/s1600-h/P1030281.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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Imperial General (???-Star)</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Richard Lu</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaLhduGC3ZawxXvqwwZgwKzRu5tUmgK940YWuVc366wrBqGnciGjA5WoXEjL7qgTvHYNNoQOW_8l6WNqPubYDMKnnCXOJkoGiWinqWp6eknLeWzgcUEug_IAnHtsWg7VxuSnHNHw/s1600-h/P1030282.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaLhduGC3ZawxXvqwwZgwKzRu5tUmgK940YWuVc366wrBqGnciGjA5WoXEjL7qgTvHYNNoQOW_8l6WNqPubYDMKnnCXOJkoGiWinqWp6eknLeWzgcUEug_IAnHtsWg7VxuSnHNHw/s200/P1030282.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237579025112948194" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Emo 3SG Vig.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXz035VxatseOobkAnzVKlfwnof5xcq6t2n-cOiXlxbT96OFXW2pqn4w1ldK1TzZl8qTzv__pH7oa8A8bJEWQoKrQ51JLYwKQu7axuPD_Me9tBcHWTYFzd6pxFlERbFEKUlggFRg/s1600-h/P1030283.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXz035VxatseOobkAnzVKlfwnof5xcq6t2n-cOiXlxbT96OFXW2pqn4w1ldK1TzZl8qTzv__pH7oa8A8bJEWQoKrQ51JLYwKQu7axuPD_Me9tBcHWTYFzd6pxFlERbFEKUlggFRg/s200/P1030283.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237578949288419682" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The massed bands marching in doing a counter-march for the rest to march in...</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTtcyVqCznCoZHtlXQ3Y9SsktCLwgF7y1AThyphenhyphenZ02VFD-4xp0b5vi7Si6nLtEOHMLLrYFO3xEloPelyBZuV2sE79GIXPgunPlIEUddRInBV5A3lzD16vWNpWxNxArmTlbKQZL1Q1Q/s1600-h/P1030284.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTtcyVqCznCoZHtlXQ3Y9SsktCLwgF7y1AThyphenhyphenZ02VFD-4xp0b5vi7Si6nLtEOHMLLrYFO3xEloPelyBZuV2sE79GIXPgunPlIEUddRInBV5A3lzD16vWNpWxNxArmTlbKQZL1Q1Q/s200/P1030284.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237578764903987090" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA5UO6z1bI4DW3ekvKmBKe2jP7-j3ppDwQMB_T6uTm4zE7gIgif-3MX6DSGDlJNemkhJoZBpPxNZ90pkx0Nz_y_tnlDvz_HalI56SyrU-ZHJFNdYF3Scb4L97HUm52YJSvJ4ON2w/s1600-h/P1030285.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA5UO6z1bI4DW3ekvKmBKe2jP7-j3ppDwQMB_T6uTm4zE7gIgif-3MX6DSGDlJNemkhJoZBpPxNZ90pkx0Nz_y_tnlDvz_HalI56SyrU-ZHJFNdYF3Scb4L97HUm52YJSvJ4ON2w/s200/P1030285.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237578660476700162" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Counter-march again.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcrhA1B3PTC2JKN2OfMC6OzJBf3L41pjAUZeXyczYDtVmxuajOG_l9Xms1pnrDLZANpXA5KhkusyzEloBMyE6N1MlsrMiMAB35YQpYHAUhiFnchFHVc5sOn8EgeND7Q9m6xneM1A/s1600-h/P1030286.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcrhA1B3PTC2JKN2OfMC6OzJBf3L41pjAUZeXyczYDtVmxuajOG_l9Xms1pnrDLZANpXA5KhkusyzEloBMyE6N1MlsrMiMAB35YQpYHAUhiFnchFHVc5sOn8EgeND7Q9m6xneM1A/s200/P1030286.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237578556824005058" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">More members come in.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZlmZ-bbNghDkllbtIlCPSn6vzt5RsqajBHhM-f3fhyphenhyphenoxOzfxpE9TahQQPOtcbgjHOWPGXcqS2n-PMmV8C42MEtcUE9vJRQY1A_M5JgEtmtwYTQV_DlBiirH3GdflF6qywHerfjQ/s1600-h/P1030287.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioHpY68bNarEWvfUkrpNojNUv76l6nipPaWmX9l8Q_dLQqg5yB7s71sswK0tv7qQLig-lVQba7DEI0jYU3fIolHOVAw4XYlvh5_hkeSpz_sn_mUHeOuAl7JcXZxq5jPoNxWVOf3g/s200/P1030296.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237230629522057298" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Our male dressing room thats actually a rehearsal room</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg19Av_QL-ZtFZiLcmoNDIdxH-4N0XOJNIL4u4c3ZLupQC5ALY5vl6jh4wKPZYSB5BuS3CmOY1BSxrgCf284y5SePFwaEnoLXlggK9t_6kNo-8RXLF0CdP1gqpAZ9r5HLiMMNDASA/s1600-h/P1030297.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg19Av_QL-ZtFZiLcmoNDIdxH-4N0XOJNIL4u4c3ZLupQC5ALY5vl6jh4wKPZYSB5BuS3CmOY1BSxrgCf284y5SePFwaEnoLXlggK9t_6kNo-8RXLF0CdP1gqpAZ9r5HLiMMNDASA/s200/P1030297.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237230518121159218" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">one more...</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtEsApFw3F9kesTyTcodj-lEeO6RhVC6i4DG1RTnkfT0-LqCfP0Sew0-uShedA8pVXXvZ0Jtf9gnUqMBhcYigdDdrPVq3PMwTVseaGGMncaZwUGysFaUn8KxZZ3blagKzqDbhWDw/s1600-h/P1030298.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtEsApFw3F9kesTyTcodj-lEeO6RhVC6i4DG1RTnkfT0-LqCfP0Sew0-uShedA8pVXXvZ0Jtf9gnUqMBhcYigdDdrPVq3PMwTVseaGGMncaZwUGysFaUn8KxZZ3blagKzqDbhWDw/s200/P1030298.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237230324626245906" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">acting cute... =)</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuSBrOnvzKxH68clRGys332ct4xXIXwqcFES8ryajqfHvRqMytORoUJlui1ucm2VPlbwPsZ4YEvbype88DHx6jEfsKgye7zrfmx87WWUfIalad_pklIZnYZhx9In_R3INboNB5QQ/s1600-h/P1030299.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuSBrOnvzKxH68clRGys332ct4xXIXwqcFES8ryajqfHvRqMytORoUJlui1ucm2VPlbwPsZ4YEvbype88DHx6jEfsKgye7zrfmx87WWUfIalad_pklIZnYZhx9In_R3INboNB5QQ/s200/P1030299.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237230239605126178" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">the smaller dressing room</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJKACAwEW9k1Sagqtpm0fOKDanLKg49pMQbIVUaxRUeNr9dQuiH_rpmD_QsP9cGB5LkrjjmP_iv83ml-ylL74tbyMg06LLeWXTB-eBdMFYd14lfvoClaJSVcs6hTv60z2uXtlntA/s1600-h/P1030300.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJKACAwEW9k1Sagqtpm0fOKDanLKg49pMQbIVUaxRUeNr9dQuiH_rpmD_QsP9cGB5LkrjjmP_iv83ml-ylL74tbyMg06LLeWXTB-eBdMFYd14lfvoClaJSVcs6hTv60z2uXtlntA/s200/P1030300.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237230071018004418" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Vig's ingenious photoshoot.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf9rr-WNYwb4N1g7OD1T1JfZZzFg8Fviapn3yR6mM25zxGXQVPxaEtTKN-UpTh36CxBkRgQ0d26IHlSX3orkaoyjXa2yePVt-nMp2ToCk_i4NfO3wrp-Ea2WOO4lxvm6mgxQ6tzQ/s1600-h/P1030301.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf9rr-WNYwb4N1g7OD1T1JfZZzFg8Fviapn3yR6mM25zxGXQVPxaEtTKN-UpTh36CxBkRgQ0d26IHlSX3orkaoyjXa2yePVt-nMp2ToCk_i4NfO3wrp-Ea2WOO4lxvm6mgxQ6tzQ/s200/P1030301.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237229963940841634" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">One more.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQZAgd3z3bf80D3i1UjUC_XqCfwnJJUFdJGaRRTRqA4xCxHe-UeTh80VxQROtJOhyrh99n4bdGsT-Or-ddfdOwFPHTLAXU83ESbmqj7d4MxjwIbgwhWiUz4zBA_hhtXJ-1FdsADQ/s1600-h/P1030302.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQZAgd3z3bf80D3i1UjUC_XqCfwnJJUFdJGaRRTRqA4xCxHe-UeTh80VxQROtJOhyrh99n4bdGsT-Or-ddfdOwFPHTLAXU83ESbmqj7d4MxjwIbgwhWiUz4zBA_hhtXJ-1FdsADQ/s200/P1030302.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237229856726246850" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">1WO Goh, David and SSG Clarence</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9fR48Cb72-mI0_IEu6kQ45mYaiOU9gPSFkGQgHQB7UajO9dZI-CLUkFbNvgomLSBRWPuolKQynTQfMVYxSrLUW_z4CVzQke8ElAApgSm2nScstajov-yfoDfmqHfvDGJinOp-UQ/s1600-h/P1030303.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9fR48Cb72-mI0_IEu6kQ45mYaiOU9gPSFkGQgHQB7UajO9dZI-CLUkFbNvgomLSBRWPuolKQynTQfMVYxSrLUW_z4CVzQke8ElAApgSm2nScstajov-yfoDfmqHfvDGJinOp-UQ/s200/P1030303.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237229719969390402" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Failed shot of the shy Kiong Wee</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieXYprUhwIxaWe_D5jKEtsj8zgdW3Bsj9MIdGUh_k9ft8rpT8ClDoEgMJbzKma5dZJ2-ORh6AhZbEUuXhhHFnhSXnCw7mUwzAQGX6YNCzsJb_uD5n8OXDC1vVpsgnf3oKgRXAo1w/s1600-h/P1030305.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieXYprUhwIxaWe_D5jKEtsj8zgdW3Bsj9MIdGUh_k9ft8rpT8ClDoEgMJbzKma5dZJ2-ORh6AhZbEUuXhhHFnhSXnCw7mUwzAQGX6YNCzsJb_uD5n8OXDC1vVpsgnf3oKgRXAo1w/s200/P1030305.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237229474557367218" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Wei Guang</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRV318g8CtAIZzpiOBfGJywoittZpgN8nP2nQ_DSGoxZtDnaUq3Xk7imyqRmtQMsFDOr4tCagCjGmc3vGAYfDlEwnmRnqvKuR9SoVSUfQjeG3oQfxbS4R43cN1bMrZiVq_Kvl8Sg/s1600-h/P1030306.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRV318g8CtAIZzpiOBfGJywoittZpgN8nP2nQ_DSGoxZtDnaUq3Xk7imyqRmtQMsFDOr4tCagCjGmc3vGAYfDlEwnmRnqvKuR9SoVSUfQjeG3oQfxbS4R43cN1bMrZiVq_Kvl8Sg/s200/P1030306.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237228873875533570" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Me, Kenneth and Wei Guang</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZf4hsfBX1Lvp9ANQRHHSgtpPzp1YgUWJiadnrSxwB92UqL3X3PoGiyp0-qicKEWpfxakT4nBPefY7trTuZQvyISOjxP9qdrOUv-49TUV8_h-sfzI2zh6BQ5Ec2ltae2TiPL0giw/s1600-h/P1030307.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZf4hsfBX1Lvp9ANQRHHSgtpPzp1YgUWJiadnrSxwB92UqL3X3PoGiyp0-qicKEWpfxakT4nBPefY7trTuZQvyISOjxP9qdrOUv-49TUV8_h-sfzI2zh6BQ5Ec2ltae2TiPL0giw/s200/P1030307.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237228793098436210" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNw_8VRPzC3ScsJyTHqHR-i8GJ2y6u9NMSWRB3drXu6z1aW1fwUtMOsA1DwNcBoWwdX6v1HmrUl1MfdquC4qy-HMHXOa5vGuOjPPZguoWkKegZB61Fl1MtFAd5uZXV6jY9w9yAAg/s1600-h/P1030308.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNw_8VRPzC3ScsJyTHqHR-i8GJ2y6u9NMSWRB3drXu6z1aW1fwUtMOsA1DwNcBoWwdX6v1HmrUl1MfdquC4qy-HMHXOa5vGuOjPPZguoWkKegZB61Fl1MtFAd5uZXV6jY9w9yAAg/s200/P1030308.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237228656806278498" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">One of the bands practising their display near the GT.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFx_HyRGoOJvQVqwbiqYlxgu2D2eJ7ZTGXBRf8wODX-had4K_nvhAO895i25wy4IETof1t6tln0psAEH4AF1M_aYJvmYkoODSFTeqxWyqpGsoeCNDyfgLHcWESZwpBNyowIGSKUQ/s1600-h/P1030309.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFx_HyRGoOJvQVqwbiqYlxgu2D2eJ7ZTGXBRf8wODX-had4K_nvhAO895i25wy4IETof1t6tln0psAEH4AF1M_aYJvmYkoODSFTeqxWyqpGsoeCNDyfgLHcWESZwpBNyowIGSKUQ/s200/P1030309.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237228490056672802" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht8iJP-upDns0fZEle38XEM04KKjZQcLx2es7WXIwIAFdbbneSeg5JZC9bZfr5AIypOzzB7SveVv1VqVs06HrBc3DiJ8QpLq2n5LscZUMhlbhb632g74kXId6OGEE6BB-2bv2D7Q/s1600-h/P1030311.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht8iJP-upDns0fZEle38XEM04KKjZQcLx2es7WXIwIAFdbbneSeg5JZC9bZfr5AIypOzzB7SveVv1VqVs06HrBc3DiJ8QpLq2n5LscZUMhlbhb632g74kXId6OGEE6BB-2bv2D7Q/s200/P1030311.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237228228463667010" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Hope they're kindly appreciated...</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />O Canada!!!<br />~Pianist is wEird~~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-34977904824293755252008-08-19T11:08:00.000+08:002008-08-19T11:24:56.683+08:00Bonjour Quebec!!! (Day 06 18-08-08)<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Scary. Woke up at 4.45 am myself and realised that I forgot to bathe!!! Meaning that I came back last night to lie down waiting for David to finish bathing and I died all the way. So I told myself I'll wake up at 5.30 to shower. Next thing I know its 6.40 and fall-in time was at 7.15 and we had to go to SGT Lin-Chow's room to collect perc instruments!!!! HOLY CRAPO!!!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Rushed through breakfast. Lucky we weren't late. Went to COL to practice with the mass bands. Made a few friends there... Richard, Delia and Daniele from the Canadian Navy Band... Nice and friendly ppl they are...</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Lunch in the afternoon Giant Hamburger!!!!!!!!!! I realised the camp got some portraits of past commanders and one of them looks like Mr Bean. No seriously I'm not joking. With a moustache.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">We were supposed to have popular concert today in the outdoors just like the Cadet band we saw on our 1st roam but was cancelled due to rain. What a relief. I was not looking forward to that one as I was really lost for that concert... cant even rmb what I was playing for each song...</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Came back to hotel to slack and start writing the 1st day of this blog and David and I almost went down late again as we lost track of time...</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Went for dinner at the CC this time as there was a buffet thing there but couldnt eat as it was only 4+pm. wtf la. First time I saw rain at this point cos when it rained on day 01 I was sleeping. When it rained during lunch I was indoors and it stopped by the time I came out.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Followed by Tattoo rehearsal at the COL....What a disaster. Today was the first time our drum solo totally broke down cos one of us forgot to repeat a phrase and we all got lost and there was like 6+ bars of awkard silence and SGT Jax had to count out loud for everyone else so they wont screw up their fan stunt... How embarassing. Fortunately Lin Chow who is the SL didnt explode leh... He's known for getting pissed and scolding us.... So surprised it didnt happen. Oh wells, lucky us! =)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Came back to hotel, had a very very very very good shower and continued this long story. Its 1130pm and I'm gonna wash some clothes before turning in. Shopping spree for tmr!!!!!!!!!</span><br /><br />Bonjour Quebec!!!<br />~Pianist is wEird~~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-33672283008504817732008-08-19T10:47:00.000+08:002008-08-19T11:08:31.348+08:00Bonjour Quebec!!! (Day 05 17-08-08)<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Fall-in same time, morning same drill.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Morning we went to the Coliseum (COL). Its actually a hockey stadium.... Had some combined band practice on the opening ceremony and closing ceremony for the International Tattoo.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Just some info here. The tattoo is a military band display where the band plays music and march around to form shapes (just like NDP pre-parade segment).</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">went for lunch at the army camp's cookhouse. Sorry forgot to mention yest's dinner was also held here. Most of the meals will be held here unless otherwise stated. The food is godly lar don't even try comparing with nee soon's cookhouse. Too much food, all western. 1 main course, 1 soup, choice of salads, and like 7 choices of drinks!!! oh forgot to mention choice of cakes!!!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">afternoon at 3 we went to GT to have rehearsal. Evening at 7.30 was the actual concert conducted by papa.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Korea was up for 2nd half. They had alot of dancers. I think they were the only band that isnt military. Their girl dancers look damn scary with the make-up leh like they woke up from the dead or something...</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">But we didnt stay to watch them... awwwwwww. tired la!!!</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Went back to CC to return some instruments and back to GT cos we accidentally packed a stand that wasnt ours. then back to hotel!!! SLEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span><br /><br />Bonjour Quebec!!!<br />~Pianist is wEird~~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-82935961632611724272008-08-19T10:01:00.000+08:002008-08-19T11:05:49.491+08:00Bonjour Quebec!!! (Day 04 15-08-08)<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Busy days begin. Woke up at 5.30am as we had to fall in at 7.15. Breakfast is always the same stuff. NO BACON.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">We went to Georges V to prepare for the welcoming ceremony, the formal opening and welcoming for the military bands season. The weather was really cold in the morning, even the top of some buildings had some fog. All the bands were to queue up along a small road leading up to a small field and they would march up to the field to do a mini showcase of their marching-in song before taking up their positions while waiting for the rest of the bands. Our band was the last band at the back to march up and there were pipe bands too!!!! Gosh so damn cool lar can.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">The bands had a mass-band performance playing some canada songs and there were some speeches before each band showcased its country's national anthem. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">This really changed my perception of the pipers as I always thought they were a really noisy bunch of irritating people. No offense, Tarun!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">I realised that band and pipes go quite well! And gosh the sound was so damn powerful la can so many bands... Oh btw O Canada, the national anthem is really nice. Other countries present include Korea, Russia, Poland, Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, UK, USA, Chile and us.<br /><br />Went to watch Norway and Belgium bands perform at the Grand Theatre (GT). I guess most (if not all) of us fell asleep at some point or another as we were really burned out. Norway was not bad... Havent heard their songs before but they were quite tight. They also featured a violinist who played solo with the band... PRO. Slept throught quite alot of it though darn.<br /><br />Slept through the interval...<br /><br />Belgium was up next. The songs were nicer and they featured a really entertaining soprano singer who incorporated humour into the show. Really impressed. Tried so hard to stay awake but failed at some point in time.<br /><br />The concert ended at 11pm la WHAT KINDA INSANE CONCERT ENDS SO LATE?!?!?!?! well thats the heavy stuff u dont find in s'pore... Bought a CD recorded by the Belgium band that was onsale outside the hall.<br /><br />Back to hotel. DEAD.<br /></span><br />Bonjour Quebec!!!<br />~Pianist is wEird~~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-89326841734551617272008-08-19T09:07:00.000+08:002008-08-19T09:58:23.751+08:00Bonjour Quebec!!! (Day 03 15-08-08)<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);">Woke up next morning at about 8am (gosh and i thought that was early!) Went for breakfast downstairs on lvl 2. My room is on lvl 3, roommate is David Tan instead of Marcus as he wanted to room with RICHARD(!!!) who was actually David's roommate.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);">Breakfast was not bad. Simple but not bad. Variety of bread to choose, with toaster available, cold hard-boiled eggs, packets of what I though was tuna but everyone said it was chicken... some diced cheese which was thick and cold (mozz and cheddar i think) There was a variety of cornflakes but I didnt really take them. Various of spreads available too! Butter, honey, penut butter, some other stuff I can't remember. Will check again tomorrow. Btw Breakfast is the same everyday. No bacon though (RARRRRRRR!!!!)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);">Orders were to stand down till 1130 and they would bring us to the Convention Ctr (CC) and collect instruments. So in the meantime, David and I decided to take a swim (oh I mean dip... as in... dip.) The warm pool was so small that when you kick the wall hard enough you can reach the other end. Met MSG Jais and MSG Cecelia there, so we were kinda like half bitching about some people. lol lets not mention names.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);">We went back up to the room after we go bored about 45mins later to get ready. The bus we're taking (since we touched down) is super comfy and quiet! Beats every coach or public bus I've ever taken. The bus took us to the CC and we had a chance to roam around (1st free roam). So we (David, Kenneth and I) decided to explore Rue St. Jean (Rue = Rd). Visited the Chocolate Museum and other various shops along the road. We ran into a public band performance I think by the Canadian Cadets Military Band. Listened a little bit. The conductor walked around and even sang a pop song accompanied by the band... Nice voice! The crowd was amazing! So many people gathered around the stage under the hot sun just to watch a simple performance. Quite alot of them brought their own chairs too! This will never happen in S'pore lor.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);">Walked on after that. Took more pictures before we had to head back to the CC. Opened all the instruments which were already delievered in there and checked for damage during travel. Only one of the toms had a broken skin. My personal parade snare which was really tight before it left singapore became super loose, had to tighten it again.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);">Had packed dinner on the bus back to hotel then came back to prepare for the next day.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);">The lunch and dinner were packed in a rather large box each. It was really heavy. 4 slices of bread, 2 packs of drinks, side snack, celery and babt carrots, and mustard sauce... something along this line la. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);">yup end of day 03!</span><br />Bonjour Quebec!!!<br />~Pianist is wEird~~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-54828524987420868442008-08-19T03:04:00.000+08:002008-08-19T10:00:38.675+08:00Bonjour Quebec!!! (Day 01, 02 13-08-08, 14-08-08)<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">I felt quite sad rather than happy leaving singapore towards Amsterdam for Transit to Montreal. Flight was KLM KL838. The flight was 13.5 hours, extremely tiresome. Fortunately the Boeing 777 had personal entertainment. Watched movies like (WOOTS!!!!)Ironman, Fool's Gold and 21... I finally fell asleep by 6.30am(S'pore time) and woke up at 9am... Touchdown at Amsterdam at 11+am and we had to kill 9 hours... Ate the macs there and played cards. DO NOT BUY MC-BACON FROM AMSTERDAM MACS! ITS THE SAME AS CHEESEBURGER PLUS 2 DRY STRIPS OF BACON.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">2nd flight was at 8.20pm (3.20 Amsterdam) on KL 0671. 747, no personal entertainment. gruelling, terrible for sleeping. Slept for half an hour cannot sleep liao. trip was 6.5 hours. We reached Montreal de Tradeau International at about er 5 or 6 +pm (Quebec time, which is 6 hours behind S'pore time) Customs was terrible. Had to queue for almost half an hour.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">The bus ride turned out to be the best of it all... Slept like a pig!</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Reached at 10+pm (Quebec time from now on). Checked in and slept till next morning.</span><br /><br />Bonjour Quebec!<br />~Pianist is wEird~~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-4862886546767190212008-08-19T02:37:00.000+08:002008-08-19T02:57:54.974+08:00<span style="font-family: arial;">hmmm long time no blog... jus stating that free man referred to the conclusion of my conducting examination which i eventually passed......</span>~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-91212148119160527152008-05-09T02:14:00.000+08:002008-05-09T02:16:51.798+08:00<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: arial;">As of TODAY, er yesterday actually, on 08 May 2008, I am a FREE MAN!*</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204); font-family: arial;font-size:78%;" >*details to be elaborated at a later date.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">~pianist is weird~</span>~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-35260493037949541972008-05-01T17:17:00.000+08:002008-05-09T02:14:16.575+08:00<div style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">wow.</div><br /><div style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);"> </div><br /><div style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Is all I can say for the most recent AJC concert, Spiritanto XII.</div><br /><div style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);"> </div><br /><div style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Personally it was one of the best concerts I've had, enjoyed and felt at home since con Fuoco IV way back in 2006...</div><br /><div style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);"> </div><br /><div style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">The 'heavy' pieces chosen were really great! Though the band was quite tired we managed to pull through the piece without any breakdown and though many of us made mistakes, our expression was really fantastic... so typical of the Seville kinda band...</div><br /><div> </div><br /><div><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">I was expecting more for the Year of the Dragon, my newest favourite by Philipe Sparke... Though we did much better during the sound check, it was evident that the band was tired by the 3rd mvt. Bass drum part drove me insane! One of the nicest (and rare) times i get to play the bass drum.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">The Raising of Lazarus was considerably okay. Though the band managed to express the piece really well, the piece was not played together at quite a number of parts, especially the perc parts. The pianist did a great job! So did </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">LiWen</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"> the glockenspiel player.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">I found Banja Luka the best piece performed for the concert. Its a pity I took so long to actually get used to its melody. The piece was well expressed overall and the sirens came in and stopped on time! Was half wondering if </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">Aaron </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">would really sabo the piece haha.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">The rest of the pieces were not bad la, not to mention the 2nd performance of Flight of the Bumblebee a.k.a Flight of the Little Lamb for Marimba.......... Glad the players pull through a miracle.</span><br /><br />hurhurhur stayed in that very night so anti-climatic.<br /><br />~pianist is weird~<br /></div>~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-24532082620279282212008-04-20T17:59:00.000+08:002008-04-20T18:13:55.149+08:00<span style="color:#ccffff;">The two words to describe the past week: Stressed and hectic.<br /><br />The amount of time I have put in to attend both AJC and cjc ALUMNI is really killing me. I had no time to even go home for the week. The songs for AJC are awesome but I just think its quite heavy for a jc band.<br />The cj songs seem worse off than AJ's. I kinda fail to understand why that when the alumni finally got bigger we're playing such retarded songs. But oh wells... its cj.<br /><br />Anyway for those who actually bother reading don't ask about how my directing exam is coming along as it is horrendous and I'm prepared to fail it badly. There's no one to seek help from.<br /><br />To those whom I have disastrously offended for the past week I'm truly sorry for being such a horrible person. Sometimes I wonder when is the day when I will totally give it all up.<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#ffcccc;">Luk Chuen please come back soon!!!!! I really miss your trust and friendship...</span><br />~pianist is wEird~~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-56657352980886907062008-04-13T21:35:00.000+08:002008-04-13T22:15:53.555+08:00Sweet SorrowI attended SSO's concert yesterday named <strong><em><span style="color:#ccffff;">Sweet </span><span style="color:#ffcc99;">Sorrow</span></em></strong>. They played Barber's Violin Concerto, op.14, featuring this really beautiful violinist, Kam Ning, who is Singapore-born, and Mahler's 5th symphony.<br /><br />This was by far the best concert that i have ever been to since the Phantom of the Opera came to Singapore! And thats not even counted as a concert anyway... Goes to show how lousy our concerts are huh? Nah, not true. I always thought the SSO played very well... until this concert. Now i think all of their past concerts suck except this one!<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>The lucky ones who decided to attend this concert of masterpieces were Tarun, Yao Feng and Saravana.</strong><br /></span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;"><em>Barber Violin Concerto</em><br />It took me awhile to actually realise that the guy who went onstage (Claus Peter Flor) was the conductor as he totally did not resemble his portrait in the concert booklet (the pic in the booklet looked like von Karajan though =)). YF acted really stupid and purposely clapped very loud when the soloist came onstage. God she really blew us away with her playing! She was extremely violent especially in the 3rd mvt, which demanded an exemplary sense of technical virtuosity and extremely emotional in the second (sweet-sorrow) mvt. There were sections of her solo when she close her eyes and scrunched up her face while playing, making her look like she was praying very hard she wouldnt screw up the piece, especially in the 3rd mvt. Her elegance toward such a mature piece almost drove me mad. Scary part was that when the piece ended i notice she had a very bad bruise/abrasion on the left side of her neck from the rough playing.... scary...................................... Managed to get an autograph!!!!!!!</span><br /><br />Btw I saw Albert Tiu there during the interval...<br /><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"><em>Mahler 5th</em><br />I expected the conductor to rush through the piece just like every other disappointing SSO concert. But NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just the opening of the funeral march theme had me at the edge of my seat... literally! Tempo was slow for the 1st mvt and overall the brasses did a Godly job playing those insane passages! Where 5 trumpets sounded like 50 000... And trombones pushing running semiquavers at crotchet = 120(!!!) For non-musicians u just need to know that's damn fast. And the horns..!!! Though some mis-pitching they executed the retarded high notes almost with ease... even as a section together! I personally though that SSO played the 1st mvt better than all of the 3 different recordings i had...<br />The 2nd mvt was very fast but the orchestra managed to keep up with Flor. The percussion was really loud. And I was thoroughly disappointed when I couldnt hear the harp (played by Gulnara) towards the end of the mvt. WASTED.<br />3rd was fine. no comment cos i'm not really into it<br />4th was surprisingly nice cos i usually cant hear it when i play it on cd cos its so soft. Gulnara did a really impressive job. Her (featured) harp entrances were all very accurate, even more accurate than the strings. (Oh the lower harp notes sound exactly like a piano!!!!! coolll!!!!!!!!)<br />Finally the last mvt was outstanding. Though it was fast and the strings were somewhat struggling to keep up, they made up at the climax at the end. HOWEVER, the climax was such an anti-climax cos the Timpanist came in really sharp! more than a semitone sharp somemore! At least he stop playing and retuned... WASTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I swear the ending was the greatest I've ever heard by SSO, which brought the crowd to a screaming applause.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;"><em>A little about the conductor</em><br /></span><p><span style="color:#cc0000;">Claus Peter Flor is damn pro, having conducted many european orchestras and even made his debut as a conductor with the Berlin Philharmonic!!!!!!!!</span></p><p><span style="color:#cc0000;">Apart from that he was damn cute waving ever-so-frantically at the screaming orchestra. He was rather scary at times as he was heard shouting at the the 1st violins a number of times... Emo section in the score required emo expression i guess... (we were seated at the 2nd thats why we could hear) He also stamped his foot on the podium a couple of times haha</span></p><p><span style="color:#cc0000;">I had a headache towards the end of Mahler's last mvt due to the sheer power of the brasses, which I have never imagined would come from SSO. I enjoyed it immensely though, and I would rate it 9/10 for a concert.</span></p><p>~pianist is wEird~ (wow heck of a long post huh)</p>~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-56757278146288406432008-02-17T16:49:00.000+08:002008-02-17T16:51:47.034+08:00<span style="color:#ffcc00;">I think i should get a conducting baton soon... after i saw Marcus's brown one i'm soooo so in love with it!!!</span><br /><span style="color:#ffcc00;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ffcc00;">He bought the one with the head that i like and the length's perfect!</span><br /><span style="color:#ffcc00;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ffcc00;">gonna go baton shopping soon... maybe before this friday's cca orientation..</span>~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-8380836004627597902008-02-10T16:34:00.000+08:002008-02-10T16:45:00.113+08:00<span style="color:#99ff99;">Its been just another CNY period... jus glad to have a short break... although deep down in me i'm somehow dying to get back to work dont ask me why... Enthu... Garang i guess<br /><br />Its been tiring trying to put all my little issues straight these days... dono why my stupid disc drive suddenly doesnt exist in my com... although its still there... my celtic folk songs cant be played by my mp3 player!!!!!!!! and i still havent donw the housework!!!<br /><br />The World is round.<br /><br />Should i start on a brand new project? i have this weird urge to write a new march for band A... and call it Everytime!!! i'm so sick of playing our 'greatest hits' series every COG!!! wanna suan this system liao haha WHY CANT WE PLAY FOREIGN MARCHES!!!!!<br /><br />ANYWAY HERE'S TO U TARA ARE U HAPPY THIS IS THE FIRST OFFICIAL NORMAL POST I'M MAKING?!?!?!?!?!<br /><br />AND ANY GIRL WHO READS THIS PLEASE DONT ASK ME OUT ON VALENTINE'S DAY COS I DONT WANT A DATE COS I DONT BELIEVE IN THIS DAY ANYMORE.<br /><br />AND TO MY SPECIAL FRIEND: i'm sorry i didnt call u out to dinner that night ok???? i was sick and i really forgot.<br /><br />yea thats about it for the week<br /><br />~pianistisweird~</span>~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-66663601107883038582008-01-13T16:32:00.000+08:002008-01-13T16:34:35.100+08:00<span style="font-family:arial;color:#ffff00;">Its been a really long time........ =)</span>~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-12169312643168831402007-03-06T22:34:00.000+08:002007-03-06T23:03:34.010+08:00<span style="color:#3366ff;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">hey claire here's the answer to all the questions on your tag... sorry i havent been blogging...</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">opus number is something like a work number...</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">musicians in the past use Op, K (kuppa), or BWV (i dont know what the heck it stands for) because they write music for many types of genre... like symphonies, sonatas, concertos, overtures, preludes, operas blah blah... so they have opus numbers to indicate the work number of the songs... so like opus 10 is the 10th work...</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">well if u ask me i'm love sick i'll say yes... i'm quite sick of love that is... haha</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">kiss from a rose is a really nice song!!! u wan i can send u...</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">and stop crapping that your results are dropping... i think that lousy results are good in a way... they make u work harder to achieve great results in the final year exams... =) it worked for me this way for O levels... so stop worrying so much!</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Something struck me very hard last sunday while taking a train to esplanade...</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">i suddenly desire to own Alvin's friend... i want to experiment writing a score for the band again, specially for CJC... well not for the school... not like i love CJ... I want to write it for the Band... and a possible title could be Con Fuoco: ________ but i dono what the _______ will be called yet la</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">i shall not elaborate on the description as until it is premiered successfully, it is still a dream. But i would say that the song will be a reflection of my 2 years in CJ, or rather, CJ band. The ups and downs and of course, the ups again... so u know what the ending will sound like. I shall not promise the creation of CJ band's 2nd commission piece, but if all goes well, who knows, maybe it could premiere in Con Fuoco VI....</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">well dreams are still dreams until i finish with op.10 Noah's Ark...</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">~pianist is weird~</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">i still cannot stop thinking about you...</span></span>~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-53025683540947477252007-02-28T19:58:00.000+08:002007-02-28T20:22:20.083+08:00<div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;">A song for you after that day:</span><br /><div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">There used to be a greying tower all alone on the sea</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">You became the light on the dark side of me</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Love remains a drug gets me high, that's how I feel</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Did you know that when it snows my eyes become enlarged</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;">And the light that you shine can be seen</span> </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">The more I get of you, the stranger it feels, yeah</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Now that your rose is in bloom, a light hits the gloom on the grey</span></div><div><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span> </div><span style="color:#ff0000;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5036556509638313330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK7LlHmzB4IbeQEflBJeJWtEGQDjCFqSKwJ-OsnnUjlwT422sAg9Oz_wLznM64NjosJWWsPULPfjCREgea9-jDK1cH76ZeOpIVtHMdw_lHDbcx_uGXcOuV4_5A2YfHaHERFycnbQ/s320/rose+grey.jpg" border="0" /><br /></span><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">There is so much a man can tell you, so much he can say</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">You remain my power, my pleasure, my pain, baby</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">To me you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Won't you tell me is that healthy, babe?</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">But did you know that when it snows, my eyes become enlarged</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;">And the light that you shine can be seen</span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;"> </div></span><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">The more I get of you, the stranger it feels, yeah</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Now that your rose is in bloom, a light hits the gloom on the grey</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;"></span></div><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5036557699344254338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_iLrMdCJKCW0sIP89iOT5naW-WvikVnNOVDmEFh34yDY5CBe-1Puyxy2mNc8cTCbYflozAdahfpCD9lz8eLgCTFYpXm7xrnxu0FOdbqYYziRbtChAREUCrV4rhQVKnW9RPVp4Eg/s320/rose.jpg" border="0" /></span> <div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;">I've been kissed by a rose on the grey, I've been kissed by a rose</span><br /></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;">I've been kissed by a rose on the grey (If I should fall...)</span><br /></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">There is so much a man can tell you, so much he can say</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">You remain my power, my pleasure, my pain</span></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">To me you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Won't you tell me is that healthy, babe</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;">But did you know, that when it snows, my eyes become enlarged</span><br /></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">And the light that you shine can be seen</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">The more I get of you, the stranger it feels, yeah</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Now that your rose is in bloom, a light hits the gloom on the grey</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">~Kiss From A Rose~</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">~SEAL~</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;">~From the movie Batman Forever~</span></span></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;">been stuck in my heart for 7 days already.</span></div><div><span style="color:#3366ff;"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">may become opus 11 or 12.</span><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;">its not going to die down anytime soon.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;">why aren't you online?</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;">~pianist is weird~</span></div></div>~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-33973845861706559932007-02-28T13:39:00.000+08:002007-02-28T13:45:33.373+08:00<span style="color:#3366ff;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Its today that opus 4A is finally completed awaiting the print... after 2 months of delay due to opus 9's abrupt creation for somebody...</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">shall take a break, play a couple of games before i continue with opus 10...</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">~pianist is weird~</span></span>~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-86962184935525091412007-02-21T17:14:00.000+08:002007-02-21T17:29:05.776+08:00notes<p><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#66ff99;">Title : The Complete Conductor</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#66ff99;">Author : Gunther Schuller</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#66ff99;">When audiences overrate and musicians underrate conductors' abilities and accomplishments, it is because the former tend to confuse conducting with gestural histrionics, and the latter with mere time beating. There are, of course skillful time beaters, even among world-famous conductors, and equally skillful podium exhibitionists. But these for the most part demean the art of conducting, making it much less than what it can and should be.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#66ff99;">Ranging from the somewhat philosophical to the specifically technical, the requisite talents and skills needed to be a fine, perhaps even great, conductor are: an unquenchable curiosity about the miracle of the creative process and about how works of art are created; a profound reverence and respect for the document - the (printed) score - that embodies and reflects that creation; the intellectual capability to analyze a score in all of its myriad internal details and relationships; a lively musical, aural imagination that can translate the abstract musical notations of a score into an inspired, vibrant performance; and on a more practical level, a keen, discerning ear and mind; a versatile, disciplined, expressive baton technique; an efficient rehearsal technique; a precise and thorough knowledge of the specific technical limitations and capabilities of orchestral instruments not only as functioning today but in different historical periods; and finally but not least, a basic respect for the role the musicians - artists in their own right - play in the creation of the sounds that are ultimately transmitted to the audience, artists without those vital contribution (as many conductors in their self-glorification tend to forget) their own talents and efforts would not be expressible.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#66ff99;">~pianist is weird~</span></p>~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38719663.post-30749378333345378322007-02-19T23:51:00.000+08:002007-02-19T23:54:53.522+08:00The Question in my mind<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;">Is the Con Fuoco V concert this year really worth performing in?</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;">I feel extremely stupid to be the only alumni playing for main band and not alumni band and i feel even stupidder for even thinking about playing in alumni band as i feel rather hostile in some way to the alumni.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;">~pianist is weird~</span>~pianist is weird~http://www.blogger.com/profile/03081874488490449216noreply@blogger.com0