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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Some Useful Links - please add on!

http://www.violinist.com/

http://www.violinstudent.com/violinmap.html Learn about the anatomy of a violin

http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/ Search for and listen to pieces of music

http://www.fjhmusic.com/index.htm Search for and listen to pieces of music

http://www.violinonline.com/violinbasics.htm Violin Basics... (chicken feet to most of you by now)

http://nusso.org/ The National University of Singapore Symphonic Orchestra

http://www.gramercy.com.sg/ That's where all our instruments came from so far


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Our Strings Banner


Hey, Brendy, anyway we can use this banner permanently as a banner for the blog?


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Hope everyone of you have enjoyed the concert as much as I did.

To be more correct, I only enjoyed the pre-intermission part. Didn't enjoy Spring, which was the last piece played. Too heavy. Didn't like 'About E.C.O' - it was totally incomprehensible to me (ops, and I teach Geography). Supposed to be an environmental awareness piece, but its way too high-tech for an old forgy like me. I prefer pieces which has a more obvious tune to it. BTW I interviewed Samuel whom I thought would be able to appreciate Spring BUT OH-NO I was wrong! He didn't like it either LOL.

My favourites that night were the first piece, Smetana’s Die Moldau, and Vivaldi's Winter.

Other than enjoying the music, part of the night was spent bio-ing the orchestra members - how they sit, how they stand, how they hold their violins and bows when they stand up and walk in. (Did anyone look out for that other than me?).


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Rehearsal at Republic Polytechnic

How could we forget that day - 17 Feb 2009. That was the F-A-T-E-F-U-L day our instructors decided that Helter Skelter would be replaced by the Dance of the Isacariot. Its madness, yes, but hey, I think this piece sounds better than Helter Skelter.



In Mrs Diana Ng's words, after she heard about the change "Very BRAVE lor! Good luck better not sc**w up!". LOL






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Other teachers:
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Ng Wenli - 4E3
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Theresa Chua - 2E1

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`Yun Bin
`Samuel
`Wei Qin
`Jia Ann
`Nicole
`Jing Yun
`Dilys

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`Kimberly
`Asyiqin
`Kai Yee
`Jessie
`Zoey
`Xuan Jia
`Samantha
`Si Qian
`Jack

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`Zann
`Xiu Qi
`Rachel

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`Theresa
`Deniece
`Amelia
`Yanting

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`Huisi

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`The Faraway Place
`The Dance of the Iscariot

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