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A high adrenaline event
I can finally breathe easy now that my choir’s SYF (Singapore Youth Festival – Central Judging of Choirs) event is over. The girls, together with their conductor, were awarded ‘gold with honours’. I...
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“Oi dearest; out of tune lah!”
I’ll just keep on humming. With his rare gift of perfect pitch, Yang would often just snort “out of tune” from under his breath. I have long come to accept the truth about my musical nature; me =...
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“Oi dearest; out of tune lah! (II)”
Seeing that Ling’s shared about her experience of learning music, I figured I should put my take on it too. Perfect pitch, or absolute pitch, basically refers to the ability to tell a note without a...
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Music as a universal language
OK, maybe not – Mathematics should be the only universal language. But it was still delightful to wake up to good news for a change. No, it wasn’t that Bak kwa prices are dropping. Rather, the New York...
View Article"How Do I Live"
Here’s a reposting of Trisha Underwood’s “How do I Live” post that got lost the other day. Interestingly, two artistes – LeAnn Rimes and Trisha Underwood- recorded the same music separately, but the...
View Article"Oldies"
While 98% of the music CDs are all classical or motion picture soundtracks, I wasn’t always a big classical music listener. In fact – like every one else around me when I was teenager – I listened to a...
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What I really wanted to be
Truth to tell, I didn’t always want to be a teacher. Heck, growing up with a family where nearly every person on my maternal side was a language teacher, I wanted to be anything but a teacher. Why I...
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Oh she can play (but finds excuses not to) :P
One of the things we had to decide when we were making plans to move into The Rivervale was whose piano would go to the house. It was, surprisingly, a pretty easy decision. Both of us had pianos at our...
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"Praise My Soul The Kingdom of Heaven"
I adore hymns. I’ve blogged here about my playing of hymns as the ACS School Pianist 24 years ago before. I love hearing and singing with a large congregation songs of majesty and praise, accompanied...
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A Classical Revival: Part I
Here’s another series of posts about an interest of mine for two decades now. No, it’s not about photography (again :P), but about classical music. Just prior to our Bali trip I’d blogged about my...
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A Classical Revival: Part II
In the old days in the mid to late 90s when we were still using portable CD players, I had a CD wallet alongside the player in my haversack. I was commuting from Yio Chu Kang station where home was to...
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Marriage, Mozart and da Ponte Part I
Here’s another multi-entry post about Le Nozze di Figaro, or The Marriage of Figaro. Yep, that favorite opera of mine for years now.:) Now, how I got acquainted to this opera by Mozart is a bit of a...
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A Little Wedding Music Part I
It’s funny that it’s taken nearly 2 years for me to finally get round to writing an entry about the music I chose for our wedding in 2006. Perhaps it’s that of late I’ve felt the urgent desire to write...
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A Little Wedding Music Part II
Here’s the funny thing. I’ve been keeping an ear out for wedding music for as long as I’ve been listening to classical music, so the feat of selecting the right music wasn’t all that difficult. By the...
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Sinfonia Concertante
Mozart wrote concertos for a large number of instruments: like his 4 concertos for Horn, 27 concertos for piano, 2 for flute, 1 for clarinet, oboe, bassoon each, 5 for violin etc. In his list of...
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Show me the money!
My book! One of my (secret) dreams after I started teaching and lecturing 12 years ago has been to publish something. I’m not quite sure where that came from, but it was sort of at the back of my mind....
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Thus do all women
If the theme in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro was about the marital infidelity of men, his companion opera buffa, Così fan tutte, is about the infidelity of women.:) Così fan tutte, which loosely...
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Musically yours
While I’ve been persistently listening to Classical Music for just over the last 20 years now, there was a long lull period during which I slowed down my classical music CD acquisition. The dates are a...
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…'For I am a Pirate King!
There’s a music CD in a wallet of audio CDs in our Nissan Latio that’s a recording of The Pirates of Penzance. One of the most well-known songs in this work is sung by a self-professed Pirate King, and...
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Breathing new life
I’ve blogged here a few times now about a classical music subscription service I’m on. It shouldn’t be easy figuring out which pieces you’d like to listen or buy. You’ve got many tens if not hundreds...
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