Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe
Just came back from a few laps around the pool, which was more crowded than usual, not with the usual lap dancers but with kids... jumping into the lap pool and then following me into the spa for some aqua-robics or something that they were doing... maybe it was a challenge to me on who could hold their breathe longer coz he was underwater for quite a long time... Bah... youthful kids and the world being their oyster....
Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe Suite was going through my mind during my swim, which is far better than the Crash test dummy song haunting me last night... Really enjoyed the SSO's performance last Sat... which was the same programme they did for V-day. Hence my forlorn emotions?
Didn't like their ending of La Valse though. Was thinking during Suite II that the song would make a lovely piece for SYF and loe and behold, there actually IS a band transcription! You can hear the tricky brass part that caught my year and screamed "band show-off piece", the jap band didn't pull it off very well, but than again, these are SSO trumpeters, blew me away that segment!!! Then again, SSO concerts are always good value for money, especially when it's a $25 student rush ticket! =P
Inagakuen Wind Orchestra - Daphnis et Chloe
During the pre-concert talk, they touched on how Ravel has listened to Rimsky-Korsakov's Scherazade over and over again and I could hear the theme in Suite II... plagarism, or is this a case of imitation being the best form of flattery?
Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe Suite was going through my mind during my swim, which is far better than the Crash test dummy song haunting me last night... Really enjoyed the SSO's performance last Sat... which was the same programme they did for V-day. Hence my forlorn emotions?
Didn't like their ending of La Valse though. Was thinking during Suite II that the song would make a lovely piece for SYF and loe and behold, there actually IS a band transcription! You can hear the tricky brass part that caught my year and screamed "band show-off piece", the jap band didn't pull it off very well, but than again, these are SSO trumpeters, blew me away that segment!!! Then again, SSO concerts are always good value for money, especially when it's a $25 student rush ticket! =P
Inagakuen Wind Orchestra - Daphnis et Chloe
During the pre-concert talk, they touched on how Ravel has listened to Rimsky-Korsakov's Scherazade over and over again and I could hear the theme in Suite II... plagarism, or is this a case of imitation being the best form of flattery?
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