|{ Gonnie YX }|

I attended Singapore Polytechnic Concert Band Concert 5 hours ago. I went with Nicholas and Sean, both who graduated from SP a yr ago. They are now serving the nation. I ORDed.

AnYway, Sean went to get flowers and a cute toking toy from Funan florist. Newly opened. He bought them for 28bucks (WOW!!) for his GF performing.

I saw many 老朋友!! Been a couple of years since I saw some of them. They were looking well and some are going to be enlisted to the Army. Yup. Serving the NAtion.

The concert was good. Really. I think is better than last year's MD. Horns were powerful and clear. Amazingly, there were like over 10 horn players. But they sounded unison and precise.

The flutes chorales were great. Texture of the chords can be heard. Great job!!

The whole band sounds good generally. Chords were heard. The colour of them. The texture, the timbre. I love the endings. FOr slow ones, they ended nicely. Yeh. In the order of high, middle and than bass parts. Beautiful. Clarinets need to be heard more and some parts the whole band generally sounded unclear. But is good concert. I enjoyed it very much.

One particular piece brought back my memories. Theatre Music. The band played this piece this evening. I played this during my 2000 SP band tour a few years back. It was one of the music for the Australian competition. The other piece was Singapura Suite. We performed these 2 pieces in the Sydney Opera House!! The tour spanned about 1 week. It was really fun. THose were the days...

The concert ended at 730pm. Few of us hang around in the concert hall. THen 5 of us, Nicholas, Leon, me, Regina and Jessica went off to Raffles City for dinner. We ate at Burger King. We chatted over everything, from computers to MSN to Bitorrents, etc. All of us spilt up around 9pm.