EVERYBODY LOVES A SOIREE! PART 3!

EVERYBODY LOVES A SOIREE!

PART 3 @ CHEZ CHING LEE

Covid-19 is making a comeback, but since everybody in Singapore has been triply and quadruply vaccinated, life can still go on as normal. Which means we can have our soirees, make music, enjoy food, meet new friends and just be like ourselves a few years ago. Being responsible for our own health is the name of the game, which is to test negative for ART (antigen rapid test) before going out to social engagements. All that is old hat by now.

The latest soiree (Saturday 2 July) took place at Chez Ching Lee @ Havelock, the former Singapore Arts Festival director being the most gracious and inviting host. In addition to the usual gang, we added new members to our music-making crew, namely Lim Seh Chun (Associate Provost at the Singapore University of Technology & Design, and former SSO third flautist / piccolo player) and Zhang Heyang (Music journalist at Lianhe Zaobao, and former concertmaster of the NUS Symphony Orchestra), who added a new dimension to our evenings of music.

Enough of blabbing, here are the photos.

    The evening opened with the Havelock natives
Loke Hoe Kit & Goh Ching Lee.

The duo has begun to perfect the first two
movements of Brahms First Cello Sonata.

The good professor has returned to virtuoso
flute playing, with a 20-minute recital of music
by Casielles Camblor, Ponce, MacDowell, Hirota,
Poulenc & Shostakovich. All 20th century music!

A we-fie by mirror, and not laterally inverted too!

The grub from Hillman 99 restaurant

Now everyone is satisfied, 
the music may continue.

What happens when music writers from
Zaobao and The Straits Times meet:
music by Faure, Glazunov & Drdla!

More Brahms from Ching Lee:
Intermezzo in A major (Op.118 No.2)

Enjoying the music, and its almost
bedtime for some people.

Sharon Cheah, former arts journalist of
The Business Times improvises on the
gospel hymn How Great Thou Art.

Some 4 hands music, possibly by Bach.

Percy Grainger's Tune from County Derry, with
Ching Lee making sure the melody comes through.

Sightreading inevitably takes place, the
Canzonetta from Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.

Music to close the evening, with
what sounds like Mahler's Adagietto.
Tan Chan Boon would be proud!