Sunday, July 25, 2004 @5:21 PM
I went to Nanyang Girls' High Chinese Orchestra concert last night. It's a pity our committee didn't promote their concert. Let me tell you, it's a fantastic concert! I suffered a huge shock as the concert progresses. From their last concert 2 years ago, they have improved trememdously in skills and feel. It was definitely impressive! =) Yup, something that I must highlight in this entry. The erhu and zhongruan solo brought the whole crowd to the climax~
The erhu solo was damn good. Her actions, reflexes and movement were beautiful. The song was "Hong Mei Sui Xiang Qu". Definitely a talent! I was soooooooo impressed. yea, so after her performance, she had the whole auditorium of people cheering for her!!!! Well, she definitely deserves the applause and cheers! =) Good job done there!
The zhongruan solo was a very cool girl, clothed in a white halter wedding gown. Very elegant. =) The song she played was "Shan Ge", (mountain song). The song really sounded like it was played on electric guitar. All the chords and everything, like tiao ba, gao yin, lun etc. Marvallous. Fantastic. Perfect. When the crowd heard the chords which really sounded funky and electric, there were laughs and comments about it. But, she remained calm and composed, showing no emotions at all on her face. A very cool girl. Her white and flawless gown emphasised on her coldness very much. Just like what Mr Low said, a liuqin or zhongruan player must have a certain character to succeed. She is one with personality and character.
Yup, I particularly like the song Huang He. It was a combined piece with The Chinese High CO (about 8 of the boys participated). For a moment, I thought I was actually travelling on the majestic Huang He. The sound effects for the wind and waves was done extremely well. They had this 3-m tall aluminium sheet hung and someone went to hit it from behind. The whole sheet was vibrating vigorously and the shine and sound travelled round the auditorium, creating the effect of the waves glimmering under sunlight. Very nicely done.
NYCO really put in a great deal of effort in this concert. I enjoyed it very much! jiayou for your next concert! =) [saw the cello/bass teacher, Mr Lee, there too. It turned out that he is one of the 9 mentor teachers in NYCO.]
Anyway, the Hongkong exchange students are back in Hongkong. Particularly miss Lousie. hahahx... sweet girl. I wasn't at the airport on Saturday, so for a clear account of it, please visit xiaohan's blog,
alienworld.blogspot.com
It was Mr Suria's observation on Friday on the topic of atmospheric pressure. Mdm Soh was his observer. He seemed a little nervous. Yup, and he broke a test tube at the end of the lesson. -opps- Nevertheless, hope he did ok for it. -smilex-
Thanks to Wee Kiat for that sound advice! The tagboard is down again, so I shall thank you here. And to all who left their note there, thanks!
It's SS test tomorrow. Good luck.