Allure 2009

Some backlogged events not updated. =x

Last Sat went to watch nusco concert with er-jie.. wasn't quite the original plan... haha. cos i wanted to go to eawards party instead... but the weekend before that.. huiyan asked if we want the 2 tickets she had left... so we went lor..

But well... the concert turned out to be better than i expected.. haha. i feel that the audience rate of a concert really depends on repertoires played.. and this concert is pretty much well received. :) i think i still prefer traditional repertoires. haha! So sometimes orchestra should not try to be funny to play some dunno what songs. =x

For nusco, i haven't been sitting downstage for a long time... like 4 years?! lol! mei xiang dao i also perform with them for so many years liao. and it really feels a bit different... and i guess it will be the same in future when i stop going to sy ba.. And actually i feel prouder on stage. haha! But whatever lah... quite lucky i didn't join them this year... really busy until i want to die liao.. still want to take saturday away meh... not like my saturdays are free too lah. hais.

Anyway... weikang was on stage... much to our surprise... haha! We were sitting quite in front... (behind Mr. Phoon and the pianist's family). haha. so we managed to catch his attention when they just came out... and we were gesturing to each other like... why i not performing and blah blah blah.

The first repertoire, which was composed by Mr. Phoon, was a commissioned piece by nus. erm... not really a bad piece.. but it's the theme kept on repeating... and they played it like twice.. the opening repertoire and the encore piece... -.- so i kinda got the tune stuck in my head for the rest of the night. haha!

Pipa solo was good too... considered the fact her hand/arm was injured some time ago... it's commentable. :) And i think huiyan is getting used to it... or even... liking the feeling of being a soloist. haha!! Somehow i think she played this better than cao yuan... good for her. Jia you ba. :)

Fei Tian was still kinda scary.. lol!!! But better than the last time we heard lah... lol. And it's like one of my fav songs... haven't heard it 'live' for a long time. yea...

Tian shan was ok too... except for a few notes which went off a bit... but other than that it was an enjoyable song to listen to... i think she sure will have chances to solo again... perhaps on a bigger scale.. then plus the good piano accompaniment... not bad leh!

Last repertoire was Yellow River. Omg. if i were the soloist i would have been really nervous.. cos EVERYONE can see my hands through the projector. First time i see something like that. they actually put a dv beside the piano to capture the soloist's hands onto the projector. it's like damn cool. but quite scary too. haha. some of the chords he might have gotten wrongly... but i think overall it's still a very good performance.

And that night we had very very good audiences!!! No one clapped before the song ends. I was so pleased... hahaha... And this shows that almost all or most are music veteran... and so they know... the concerto hasn't ended yet. I love this kinda audiences because they dun disturb the musician. if someone clapped. i think i will roll my eyes. lol.

After that... stayed a while to talk to some nusco peeps... well... no more supper cos concert ended like 10+pm. Missed the days which we have the concert in the early evening... Better! dunno why they wanna change. sians...

But if there's the time and chance... i think i want to go back there to play again. i mean... it's where i gain a lot of sight reading experience afterall.. and through the concerts which feature very traditional CO songs... i've learnt to like them too... rather than these really new ones. =x So i dun really mind. somemore the ppl there are like... also know for abt 5 years liao... why not? if not enough erhu ppl next time.. can find me. haha!

Anyway. That's all. Thesis is going on well... i hope. =x