A Great Concert...

Went for Kam Ning's concert at YST Conservatoire on Fri, 19 Mar. It was a concert of 20th Century Music... Music written in the past 25 years, to be precise...

In short, the performance, to say the least - was electrifying! I remembered her from the time she played Tchai's vln Concerto with the SSO and again from a Concert special on TV tht featured her playing one of Mozart's violin concerto in the Queen Elisabeth Competition - observing her play the 2nd movement was just so emotional! - She was playing it with such conviction tht perspiration was just all over her forehead... Enough abt tht. She was no different this time. Her personality just shone through and it was such an honour to have been able to attend her performance again. So glad for that oppotunity - special thanks to jie for bringing up the YST concert series to me!

On other news... I finally 'talked' my t-i-c out of playing for fiesta. And i managed to get Derek, twin bro of David - my NIE snr to play the accompaniment for this event. Glad it's him... (definitely more prepared than her!) and seems like he's quite intuitive with accompaniment... so it was good to be working with him. 2 rehearsals so far were reasonable. The girls are the problem... not him. Met up with him for a little chat and bizness talk last Thurs @ yishun... it was good to mt up with another free-lancer who was willing to open up and share! After tht, as I had a while more before going to school, I went to the library to check things out. To my surprise, i found 3 music related books on the '780' shelves. Haven't read most of them yet... But they've got great titles...! More about the 3 books soon... (most prob in the educational blog)