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More music rollicking
There’s a date each month on the calendar that I look forward to these days. Specifically, it’s the 20th when my subscription on EMusic gets refreshed and I can pick up a few hundred more music pieces....
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Music for babies
While driving home from church and Yotei last Sunday, Ling asked if we can get a music playback device. Apparently, babies can start ‘hearing’ from the 5th month, and she believes that the right kind...
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That French Guy
I don’t think there’re many children in Singapore taking piano lessons who haven’t played pieces by Richard Clayderman. Who’s he? Well, only one of the most successful romantic piano recording artistes...
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Music Collections
The 20th of the month came about again. I picked up a whole bunch of classics to listen to, most of it I haven’t heard before. C.P.E. Bach’s keyboard concertos. I’ve always thought Mozart was the...
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Choirs & Choruses
One of the interesting bits about Ling and me is that we were both choir conductors.:) Even though I applied to join choirs during during week 0 of my first year studies in NTU 17 years ago, I had no...
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Oratorios & Masses I
As I remember it, the first oratorio I acquired in my classical music recollection wasn’t Handel’s Messiah, but Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten. The latter was a 1970s recording with the BBC Chorus &...
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Oratorios & Masses II
Handel: Israel in Egypt If I had to select a single favorite single number from a large choral work, it’d have to be “Sing Ye to the Lord”, the finale from Handel’s Israel in Egypt. This oratorio isn’t...
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Oratorios & Masses III
Continuing on my series of posts on large vocal classical works. I’ve blogged about two of Handel’s oratorios: this entry is about both of Haydn’s oratorios. Haydn is also one of those lucky composers...
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Music in Movies
One way I get introduced to classics I haven’t heard before is, surprisingly, through science-fiction movies. Specifically, there has been over the years a bit of use of the classics in the Star Trek...
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“I am going to make that audience rock.”
There was an interesting if very short news article in this morning’s The Straits Times; where an amateur singer took to the stage in Britain’s Got Talent 2009 – I’m guessing the UK version of American...
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The Goldberg Variations
Of all the classical music there is out there that’s composed for solo instruments, I’m guessing that the piano got the largest heap. Haydn wrote 62 piano sonatas; Mozart wrote 18 (plus a huge number...
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Lucia Popp
There comes a point in time listening to the classics that you start being able to distinctly tell by listening who’s the person singing a particular role. Funnily, the two vocal ranges I have...
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Kip’s Lights
I’ve blogged about wedding music last year, and in the pair of posts noted that one of my choices for Ling’s Processional was “I’ll Always Go Back to that Church”, better known as “Kip’s Lights”, from...
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Wedding Music – Revisited
Nearly a year ago I wrote a series of posts on wedding music. Even though our own event was 3 years ago, whenever I listen to a music composition, my subconscious self still goes on appraisal mode to...
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On the Piano
I’ve posted here before about a music service I subscribe to, namely eMusic. The service used to be a huge bargain with thousands of classical music albums on sale at very affordable prices. However,...
View ArticleMozart’s Contemporaries
I think many piano learners here would have gone the route of learning Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven sonatas at some point. The three are among the most widely known of ‘classical’-period music composers...
View ArticleSimply love choral music :)
It’s the season for the Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) Central Judging for Choirs for secondary schools again. Just the other day, I went to support my ex-choir at Singapore of the Arts (SOTA) School...
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Royal Wedding Music
On FRI evening, I received an SMS from Ling: Am watching the Royal Wedding on Channel 5 now. =) Ugh. And I was still in school for an event! I did catch the ceremony the next morning though, courtesy...
View ArticleLearning Chinese Through Songs
Be it pop or kiddy songs, I’m of the opinion that music makes learning Chinese (or any language I supposed?) pleasurable. We have been quite surprised (and pleased, of course) that Hannah’s kindy has...
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A Classical Revival: Part III
It might be the company I keep, but I rarely see or hear of many friends who still listen to classical music regularly anymore, if going by social media posts is any indicator. Just earlier this year,...
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