It's been a while, but since ex-Singapore Arts Festival director Goh Ching Lee is back in town, there's no reason not to have another musical soiree with the usual suspects. Its past mid-Autumn and there's no longer a full moon and moon cakes are out of circulation, but food and music is still in bountiful supply.
She and neighbourhood cellist Loke Hoe Kit are still working on the Darius Milhaud Cello Concerto, and a Singapore premiere looks like on the cards in the near future. So we got a sneak preview, but just the first and third movements. Ching Lee has also returned from the Chetham's Piano Summer Festival, and was ready to for some virtuoso action after being tutored by no less than Peter Donohoe!
So here are the photos of an enjoyable evening. What else could it have been?
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| You saw it here first, Loke Hoe Kit to premiere the Milhaud Cello Concerto soon. Akan datang! |
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| Ching Lee gave a free-wheeling account of the Kreisler-Rachmaninov Liebesleid. |
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| The food was Eurasian on this occasion. |
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| Still working on the Mozart Fantasy in D minor, K.397 |
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| Zhang Heyang chipping into to play Ennio Morricone's Gabriel's Oboe from The Mission. |
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| Rachel Yee tries some bluegrass fiddling on Heyang's violin. |
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| Music for four hands, Handel's Arrival of the Queen of Sheba. |
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| Heyang now joins in to play the top bar violin part. |
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| It's Rachel's turn to enter the fray, with excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. |
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| Sooner or later, someone had to play Teresa Teng's The Moon Represents My Heart. |
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| Janet surprises one and all with her keyboard prowess. John is suitably impressed. |
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| Everyone had fun, we hope! |
1 comment:
This is most impressive Ching Lee. Bravo. Looks like you had a great variety of music and what can we say about the food?
Wish we had been there!
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