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33Sun 28 Aug 2022 Esplanade5pm Concert Hall Orchestra of the Music Makers Chan Tze Law, Conductor Qin Li-Wei, Cello Astor Piazzolla (arr. Desyatnikov & Shin) The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, arranged for Cello and Strings (WORLD PREMIERE) Richard Strauss An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64 Concert duration: ~ 2h, inclusive of 20min intermission Photographs and videos will be taken at the event, in which you may appear. These may be published in OMM’s publicity channels and materials. By attending the event, you consent to the use of these photographs and videos for the foregoing purposes QIN LI-WEI PLAYS FOUR SEASONS • ALPINE SYMPHONY INFORMATIONCONCERT
OMM is also very happy to welcome over 30 promising young students from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (YSTCM) to perform with us as part of this evening’s musical collaboration, for their learning and development. OMM has been fortunate over the years to have like-minded organisations such as YSTCM in our community, who have been supportive of our work and come alongside us to pursue artistic excellence and use music to contribute positively to society. Like how individual musicians of the orchestra work together in order to make a symphony possible, it is through community collaborations like these where we can come together to achieve something more than the sum of our parts. Looking ahead, OMM has exciting plans in the pipeline for our 15th anniversary next year and beyond, including our production of Das Rheingold as part of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, and restarting of community projects like our orchestra camp which had to be scaled down for the last 2 years. We thank you for your support thus far and if you believe in our work and enjoy our performances, do consider supporting OMM (www.orchestra.sg/support-us) to help us to do better. We look forward to seeing you at our future projects, and we have much more in store for you! Lee Guan Wei, Daniel Acting Board Chairman, Orchestra of the Music Makers
A warm welcome from all of us at OMM! This evening’s performance marks OMM's return to our full-scale symphonic potential after more than 2 years of navigating 4 ever-changing COVID-19 measures. It has not been an easy journey for everyone, and we are glad that you are here with us for this milestone.
O ur heartiest congratulations to the Orchestra of the Music Makers on this evening’s musical celebration, from the seasons of Buenos Aires to Bavarian pastures and Alpine peaks. Indeed, even as international travel is still regaining its gait, today’s programme offers a thrilling journey across lands! YST students and alumni have been active in OMM for years now. This concert marks the next step for the collaboration between YST and OMM, with over 30 of our students joining the orchestral forces for Richard Strauss’s Alpine Symphony. We are delighted to be working with OMM, and for students to expand their exposure to repertoire as well as the community. This evening’s soloist Prof Qin Li-Wei (Head of Cello Studies) is of course no stranger to local classical music audiences, and we look forward to hearing Jonathan Shin (’15 / YST Artist Fellow) display his artistry on the OMM stage once again. As YST approaches our 20th anniversary in 2023, we continue to forge ahead by creating richer student growth opportunities and community connections. Today’s collaboration is an exciting beginning for further initiatives to come, and we look forward to the musical adventures ahead! Prof Peter Tornquist Dean, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music
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The Orchestra of the Music Makers (OMM) is a Singapore-based symphony orchestra established in 2008, comprising over 140 highly-trained volunteer musicians. Although many have chosen careers outside of music, our musicians are dedicated to the high standards of music-making and community work which OMM stands for. Under the mentorship of Chan Tze Law, a leading Singaporean conductor and Vice-Dean of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, OMM has become an integral part of Singapore’s classical music scene and has gained international repute. Over the years, OMM has continued to challenge expectations by taking on works of epic proportions. Following the successful performances of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel and Bernstein’s Mass in 2017 and 2018 respectively, OMM presented the long overdue Singapore Premiere of Wagner’s Die Walküre in January 2020 to critical acclaim. OMM was among the most active arts groups during the COVID-19 pandemic, organising 16 digital productions, live performances, and outreach events from August 2020 to December 2021. Recordings of these digital productions have also been featured at the Expo 2020 Dubai, as well as on the Singapore Airlines Inflight Entertainment System. Orchestra of the Music Makers Ltd. is supported by the National Arts Council under the Major Company Scheme for the period from 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2025. WWW.ORCHESTRA.SG @ORCHMUSICMAKERS INSTAGRAM: @OMM.SG 6 are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Chan's performances of Mahler's Symphony No. 8 with OMM and Sing50 concerts with the Metropolitan Festival Orchestra and Lang Lang were named “Best Concerts of 2015” by Singapore's Sunday Times. The West Australian lavished praise on his performance of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring “Tze-Law (Chan) did wonders from the podium. It was a tour de force.”
CHAN TZE LAW CONDUCTOR Chan Tze Law is Music Director of Singapore's Metropolitan Festival Orchestra and the award-winning Orchestra of the Music Makers (OMM). In 2018, he received the Composers and Authors Society of Singapore’s Artistic Excellence Award for his numerous contributions to the Singapore music community.
In 2020, Chan conducted OMM in Singapore's first ever production of a Wagner Ring Cycle opera Die Walküre to international acclaim. Chan’s performance of Elgar’s The Music Makers in 2017 was also described by Classical Voice America as having “breathtaking walls of sound and intimate moments of haunting beauty”. Chan has appeared with major orchestras in the Asia Pacific region and with soloists including Joshua Bloom, Fiona Campbell, Warwick Fyfe, Deborah Humble, Lee Hyon, Caitlin Hulcup, Lang Lang, Ng Pei-Sian, Melvyn Tan, Albert Tiu, Qin Li-Wei, Virgillio Marino, Daniel Sumegi and Igor Yuzefovich. Concerts and CD recordings conducted by Chan have been broadcast on Australia's ABC Classic FM, UK's BBC Radio 3 and featured on Singapore Airlines’ Krisworld In-flight Classical Music selection. As a pedagogue, Chan is Vice-Dean and Associate Professor of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore, and is widely credited for his founding role of the conservatory orchestra and New Music Ensemble. Chan was also the founding chief conductor of the Australian International Summer Orchestral Institute. He has given masterclasses in conducting at the Peabody Institute, USA, and the Royal Academy of Music, London as well as lectures on leadership in conducting at the Senior Management Programme of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. In 2019, he served on the selection committee of the Oxford Conducting Institute International Conducting Studies Conference.
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As one of the most sought-after cellists of his generation, Chinese Australian Qin Li-Wei has appeared all over the world as a soloist and as a chamber musician. After being awarded the Silver Medal at the 11th Tchaikovsky International Competition, Qin won First Prize in the prestigious 2001 Naumburg Competition in New York. Highlights in recent seasons include debuts with the London Symphony, Russian Philharmonic, Czech Chamber and Brussels Chamber Orchestras. In recital and chamber music, Qin is a regular guest at the Jerusalem, Rheingau and MecklenburgVorpommern Music Festivals, and the Lincoln Centre Chamber Music Society, New York, with musicians including Daniel Hope, Nobuko Imai, Mischa Maisky and Peter Frankel. He has recordings on Universal Music/Decca with the Singapore Symphony, on Sony Classical with Shanghai Symphony, and on ABC Classics with London Philharmonic Orchestra. Qin was invited to join the BBC 'New Generations' scheme in 2001, and in 2002 received the Young Australian of the Year Award. Other major invitations included appearances at the 2008 Beijing Olympics (New Zealand Symphony), 2012 London Olympics, Davos World Economics Forum (Basel Symphony) and recently the Fortune Global Forum 2017 Opening Ceremony.
Prior to teaching at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, National University of Singapore, Qin was a professor of cello at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. He is also a guest professor at Shanghai and Central Conservatories in China. As artistic director, Qin successfully founded the annual Qingdao International Cello festival in 2018. Qin plays a 1780 Joseph Guadagnini cello, generously loaned by Dr and Mrs Wilson Goh.
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Jonathan Shin performs extensively as a pianist, and composes and improvises across multiple genres and styles. His music has been described as “supremely confident and comfortable in its own skin.”
Jonathan won the Longy School of Music Orchestral Composition Competition in 2017 and was awarded the Emerging Artist Award in 2019 by the St. Botolph Club. Jonathan has been commissioned by many orchestras in Singapore, such as the Orchestra of the Music Makers, for whom he has written Siginnah!, a concerto for quintet and orchestra; a concert overture The Night Bazaar; and Folk Games for string orchestra. Resound Collective commissioned his 1819 Suite for the Singapore Bicentennial celebrations, and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra has performed his City Arising and Folk Games. His chamber operettas The Bright-Eyed Otter (libretto by Theophilus Kwek) and At One Time (libretto by Felix Cheong) won their commissions by New Opera Singapore. A third operetta, Hamlet Private Investigations Inc., will be performed in Cambridge, Massachusetts in January 2023 by the Boston Opera Collaborative. His current projects include a collaborative composition of a large choral symphony, as well as a full-scale opera. Jonathan is presently pursuing his doctoral studies in composition at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University under the tutelage of Prof. Kevin Puts. 9 Photo by Willie Lyou
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He began composing professionally at 22. In 2015, his musical Viva! la Singapura was produced. The following year saw the premiere of his first commissioned work, the song cycle The Other Merlion and Friends, where it was critically reviewed as “probably the most compelling and worthwhile new work from any Singaporean composer in recent years.”
[ Learn more bit.ly/ystspotlight Voyage Festival • 26-27 Aug Orchestral Institute: Richter & Sibelius • 3 Sep Ones to Watch: Verona Quartet • 7-8 Sep LEAD! with Sibelius Academy & HEM Geneva • 18 Sep Calefax Quintet • 28-29 Sep Project Re-imagining: Ho Chee Kong & OpusNovus • 8 Oct Orchestral Institute: Pärt, Britten & Elgar • 14 Oct Albert Tiu, Qian Zhou & Qin Li-Wei in Trio • 27 Oct Boston Brass • 11-12 Nov Singapore International Violin Competition • 1-14 Dec As YST turns 20 next year, we reflect on two decades of growth and continue to forge ahead in our artistic and educational mission. Join us as we begin the musical celebration. Looking Back, Moving Forward CELEBRATING 20 YEARS AT YST
Man is the story-telling animal, and through the history of humanity, many of our stories have revolved around nature. From the passage of the sun and the changing seasons, to the immensity of the mountains and oceans, mankind has created myths and legends to attempt to understand, honour, and celebrate nature in its sublimity. Words are not the only way we can tell a story, however — composers have depicted the natural world in music too, whipping up orchestral thunderstorms or sound paintings of heaving oceans. Many have also written about their emotional resonance with nature, be it the joy of spring after a particularly bitter winter, or the languid stillness of a warm summer day. In the two works you will encounter today, composers Piazzolla and Strauss both sought to describe their emotional responses to nature through music, with the former employing the agility of a string ensemble, and the latter harnessing the sonic grandeur of one of the largest orchestras you are likely to ever experience live.
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Piazzolla first wrote Verano porteño (Buenos Aires Summer - in Argentine usage, the adjective porteño refers to Buenos Aires), for his Quintet in 1965 as incidental music for a play, but it became very popular as a standalone piece. Over the next 5 years, Piazzolla wrote three more “Seasons”, and his Quintet first performed the complete set of four tangos in May 1970. In the late 1990s, Violinist Gidon Kremer commissioned his friend Leonid Desyatnikov, to arrange Piazzolla’s Seasons for violin and string orchestra. Desyatnikov creatively linked Piazzolla’s Seasons to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, sprinkling musical quotations from Vivaldi’s (Italian) Seasons into his arrangement. Taking Kremer’s lead, OMM has commissioned Singaporean composer Jonathan Shin in 2021 to adapt this for solo cello and string orchestra. Soloist Qin Li-Wei has also taken the liberty of asking Jonathan to include two Vivaldiinspired interludes within the set, in celebration of the creative lineage of both Desyatnikov and Vivaldi. Illustrations by Merriley Sim arranged for Solo Violin & String Orchestra by Leonid Desyatnikov, and adapted for Solo Cello & String Orchestra by Jonathan Shin
A bandoneon player since childhood, Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla is most famous today for his reconceptualisation and development of the traditional Argentinian tango. Known as Tango Nuevo (New Tango), this new artistic movement in both dance and music combines edgy dissonances and counterpoint with expansive melodies, overlaying the traditional framework of the tango rhythm. One of his most popular concert works, The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires is written in precisely this fashion.
Buenos Aires Summer (Verano Porteño) “Last of all”, Interlude after Vivaldi “First Warmth”, interlude after Vivaldi Buenos Aires Autumn (Otoño Porteño) Buenos Aires Winter (Invierno Porteño) Buenos Aires Spring (Primavera Porteña)
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Piazzolla’s Summer opens with growling dark harmonies as a sultry tango takes form, softening briefly into effusive but short-lived sentimentality. The tango kicks back in with dissonant grunts, rhythmic snaps and swooping glissandos in the string instruments. Desyatnikov’s quotation of Vivaldi’s Winter gives a deft nod to the cruel ironies of the seasons, reminding us that when Buenos Aires basks in the summer sunlight, Vivaldi’s Venice lies frozen in the throes of winter.
Autumn opens somewhat spryly with a slightly ominous tinge. The solo cello takes centre stage with a crackling cadenza which soon gives way to bleak rumination. An extroverted reprise of the opening tango then makes way for a leaping, bounding passage for solo violin that recalls the cello’s expressive song. The ensemble comes back with energetic rhythms and percussive string slaps, before abruptly falling away.
The solo cello introduces a melancholic and longing song which the violin soon joins in dialogue. This song alternates with cadenzas and the all-pervasive tango rhythm driven by the orchestra. Traces of Vivaldi’s Summer make an appearance in this movement, with the solo cello quoting melodic fragments over the tango rhythm, while the orchestra recalls Vivaldi’s furious descending scales. Over this, the solo cello soars with Piazzolla’s wintry air, this time transformed into an anguished emotional outburst. After a brief rumination and duet with a solo violin, recollections of Vivaldi’s own frosty song wraps Piazzolla’s Winter up snugly by the fireplace.
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Opening with a fugue carried by the principal strings, the Argentinean Spring is certainly a spiky affair, with the solo cello surging forward — almost improvising — over a strong tango rhythmic ostinato. A more subdued and somewhat bittersweet middle section recalls the coda of Piazzolla’s Winter, before the music is rejuvenated. The tango kicks in again, the strings swing with sultry slides, all exulting in the joy of Spring.
When he was fifteen years old, Richard Strauss went on a hike up the Heimgarten, a 1790-meter-tall mountain in Bavaria. Most unfortunately — or perhaps fortunately, for us who will benefit from the travails of the young Strauss — the group got lost on the way up, and got caught in a storm on the way down. He wrote about the experience, Recently we made a great hiking party to the top of the Heimgarten, on which day we walked for twelve hours. At two in the morning we rode on a handcart to the village, which lies at the foot of the mountain. Then we climbed by the light of lanterns in pitch-dark night and arrived at the peak after a five-hour march. There one has a splendid view [of lakes, mountains, glaciers, and so Thenon]. we hiked down the other side to Lake Walchensee, but we took a wrong trail and had to climb around in the midday heat for three hours with no path … Lake Walchensee is a beautiful lake, but makes a melancholy impression since it is enclosed by forests and high mountains … [On the way from there to Lake Kochelsee] a terrible thunderstorm overtook us, which uprooted trees and threw stones in our faces. We hardly had time to find a dry spot before the storm broke. Lake Kochelsee, a very romantic and beautiful lake, made huge waves so that it was impossible to even think about crossing it. After the storm had passed we had to settle for walking all the way around the lake, whether we wanted to or not. On the way the rain came again and that is how we arrived in Schlehdorf, after a breakneck march (we did not rest for a single moment)—tired, soaked to the skin—and spent the night; then the next morning we rode as calm as could be in the hay wagon to Murnau. The hike was interesting, unusual, and original in the highest degree. MOUNTAIN HIKE
After arriving safely home, the budding composer “described the whole hike on the piano... [in the style of] huge tone paintings and smarminess à la Wagner”. 15
AN ALPINE SYMPHONY (EINE ALPENSINFONIE) “ ” RICHARD STRAUSS (1864-1949)
A Hero’s Life, however, Strauss’s interest in purely instrumental music rapidly cooled, and he turned his considerable musical talent to shaking up the post-Wagner operatic world, with Salome, Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier
By the turn of the 20th century, Strauss had become one of the most important German composers of his day, and a master of the symphonic poem — a form of orchestral music written to depict stories, moods, and visual imagery. He also (possibly hyperbolically) claimed to be able, if required, to describe a fork and knife with his music. Some of his most famous compositions in that form include Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote and A Hero’s Life (Ein Heldenleben). In 1900, after writing A Hero’s Life, he began thinking about writing one more symphonic poem, which would “begin with a sunrise in Switzerland”, and which then morphed into a four-part UponSymphony.completing
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This formative teenage experience aside, Strauss was swiftly developing as a composer. Beyond climbing mountains, he spent his formative years playing in the Wilde Gung’l Orchestra – an amateur orchestra in Munich which still exists today – which his father conducted. Later, he would cite his years performing with the Wilde Gung’l as allowing him to learn the craft of orchestration on a practical level.
Despite its title, An Alpine Symphony is more of a symphonic poem than a symphony, with 22 episodes, each given a descriptive title that charts the hiker’s journey up and down the Straussmountain.usesan incredibly lavish orchestra – including cowbells and a wind machine – with
After making two youthful attempts, Strauss stayed away from writing Symphonies. He was content to leave that to his friend Gustav Mahler who was making huge waves with his ground-breaking works, and he even conducted some of Mahler’s Symphonies from time to Intime.1911, Mahler’s sudden and premature death left Strauss so shaken that he could not speak for days. In his grief, Strauss’s mind turned to how Mahler had once remarked that “Strauss and I tunnel [in their artistic endeavours] from the opposite sides of the mountain. One day we will meet”. These treasured words would mingle with memories of a teenage hike up a mountain 32 years earlier, and the long-abandoned ideas of Swiss sunrises and longforgotten sketches eventually resulted in An Alpine Symphony. Strauss claimed — rather typically of early 20th-Century German ideals — that it represented the “purification through one’s own strength, emancipation through work, and the adoration of eternal glorious nature.”
Nacht (Night) Sonnenaufgang (Sunrise) Der Anstieg (The Ascent) Eintritt in den Wald (Entry into the forest) Wanderung neben dem Bache (Wandering by the brook) Am Wasserfall (At the Waterfall) Erscheinung (Apparition) Auf blumigen Wiesen (On Flowering Meadows) Auf der Alm (On the Alpine Pasture) Durch Dickicht und Gestrüppp auf Irrwegen (Lost in the Thickets and Undergrowth) Auf dem Gletscher (On the Glacier) Gefahrvolle Augenblicke (Dangerous moments) Auf dem Gipfel (On the Summit) Vision (Vision) Nebel steigen auf (Mists rise) Die Sonne verdüstert sich allmählich (The sun is gradually obscured) Elegie (Elegy) Stille vor dem Sturm (Calm before the storm) Gewitter und Sturm, Abstieg (Thunderstorm, descent) Sonnenuntergnag (Sunset) Ausklang (Conclusion (of the journey)) Nacht (Night)
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SECTIONS IN AN ALPINE SYMPHONY remarkable finesse, illustrating each episode with vivid, aural detail. He remarked at the dress rehearsal, “at last, I have learnt how to orchestrate”. An Alpine Symphony was premiered in October 1915, but received little notice – the First World War was raging at the time, and was derogatorily referred to by critics as “cinema music” – which would probably be regarded as a compliment today! It ended up marking the end of an era for German symphonic works, with large scale, Romantic works going out of fashion after the end of the First World War. Indeed, Strauss’s biographer Michael Kennedy remarked that the Alpine Symphony might itself be understood as “a long farewell to the sumptuousness of the postWagnerian orchestra, and its final sunset before the return of night peculiarly apposite and affecting… Strauss must have known that the world after the war would be a leaner, less extravagant place.” The work has indeed survived such austere times and come into its own today, entering the core repertoire of many orchestras worldwide. It also contributed to a piece of technological history, when the recording of An Alpine Symphony by Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic was used for the first test pressing of the prototype Compact Disc in 1980. 17 An Alpine Symphony is scored for the following instruments: 4 flutes (3rd and 4th doubling piccolo), 3 oboes (3rd doubling English horn) and heckelphone, 3 clarinets (3rd doubling bass clarinet) and e-flat clarinet, 4 bassoons (4th doubling contrabassoon) 8 horns (4 horns double Wagner tuba), 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, 2 tubas 2 sets of timpani, percussion (glockenspiel, cowbells, crash cymbals, suspended cymbal, tam-tam, thunder machine, bass drum, triangle, snare drum, wind machine), 2 harps, celesta, organ, and strings (with a minimum of 18 first violins, 16 second violins, 12 violas, 10 cellos, and 8 double Straussbasses)alsorequested that some woodwind instruments be doubled if Separately,possible. there is an offstage band of 12 horns, 2 trumpets and 2 trombones.
ABOUT THE MUSIC 18 Illustrations by Valerie Ng, Nifty Media DID YOU KNOW? Richard Strauss enjoyed quoting themes from his other works. In this work, he instead pays homage to several famous pieces written by famous German composers, some more overtly than others. if you are familiar with them, see if you can spot some of these! • Beethoven’s 5th Symphony • Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture • Bruch’s 1st Violin Concerto • Mahler’s 6th Symphony • Strauss’s own 2nd Symphony • Wagner’s Das Rheingold
The events depicted in An Alpine Symphony unfold across approximately 12 hours in a day, from dawn to dusk. In the course of the 22 episodes (some of which are very brief and several seconds long), Strauss takes us on a hike, describing his “feelings at the sight of the magnificent beauties of nature”, but also some rather literal depictions of these sights –cowbells depict the bovine herds found grazing in alpine pastures, for instance. We come across all the natural features one might expect, such as streams, meadows, forests, and waterfalls; a brief encounter with a hunting party near the start (performed by 16 brass musicians in a separate part of the hall); and even a mythical creature – the Apparition – which is based on Alpine tales of water goblins, seen through the spray of the waterfall. There are dangerous moments too, when surmounting the glacier, and also a violent storm, complete with howling wind and thunder. Strauss also included multiple, mostly subtle, homages to his illustrious predecessors, from
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Amid a catalogue of magnificent moments, there are two stand-outs – the first is a spectacular musical view from the mountain’s Summit. The writer Alex Ross writes of this special moment in his book The Rest is Noise “the brass intone a majestic theme… at the same time, the violins sing a Mahlerian song of longing... The intermingling of Mahlerian strings and Straussian brass suggests the image of the two composers standing side by side at the peak of their art. Perhaps they are back in the hills above Graz, gazing down at the splendor of nature while the world waits for them below… The vision passes, as joyful scenes in Strauss tend to do. Mists rise; a storm breaks out; the climbers descend.” Perhaps, this was Strauss’s intensely personal way of memorialising his friend and fellow musical giant. As for the second musical moment to look out for — the legendary conductor Herbert von Karajan once remarked that he conducted this work for the sake of its sublime Epilogue. The organ leads us into this reflective moment, where themes from the journey are recalled poignantly, first by the woodwind chorus, then the strings and the rest of the orchestra "in gentle ecstasy", before night falls. “The final gesture has the violins presenting a dark echo of The Ascent theme, ending with a long downward glissando, as if the souls of the hikers remain perpetually on their mountain journey.” - Werner Pfister Programme notes by Christopher Cheong
Beethoven to Brahms and Wagner. Most poignantly, he reserved a special place for a theme from Bruch’s beloved Violin Concerto which he described as “so very beautiful”, draped in symphonic splendour.
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CONCERTSUPCOMING Francis Tan, conductor Cheryl Pandora, piano Viona Sanjaya, piano Cheryl Pandora and Viona Sanjaya are the winners of the 2022 YST Concerto Competition. ERIC COATES - The Three Bears FRANCIS POULENC - Concerto for Two Pianos, FP 61 VASILY KALINNIKOV - Symphony No. 1 in G Minor Chan Tze Law, conductor Featuring music from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and more 21 OMM Orchestra Camp 2022 Showcase Sun 11 Dec 2022 SOTA7.30PMConcert Hall OMM Goes to the Movies 4 Sat 13 & Sun 14 Jan 2023 Esplanade7.30PM Concert Hall
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VIOLIN Zhao Tian, Concertmaster Wilford Goh, Assistant Concertmaster Kimberlyn Wu, 2nd Violin Principal Chikako Sasaki, Associate Principal Ang Dun Jie Foo Yue Ning* Chloe Goh Goh Ying Xiang Regan Ho Ho Yin Shan Jaslyn TanThanatatJorimLieuPaulineLeeLeeKahYenJirehSim*Sriaranyakul*XinJie* Tsumugu Misugi Adele ZhangWeeMingying VIOLA Wang Dandan, Principal Yeo Jan Wea, Associate Principal Shannon Chan* Calvin Dai Joan SamuelAaronFunSohTan
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VIOLIN Wilford Goh, Concertmaster Zhao Tian, Assistant Concertmaster Kimberlyn Wu, 2nd Violin Principal Chikako Sasaki, Associate Principal Joanne Chan* Bryan Chung Foo Yue Ning* Chloe NathanaelGoh
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FLUTE Cheryl Lim, Principal Natasha Lee* Kelsey Tan* PICCOLO Alvin JasperChanGoh OBOE Tay Kai Tze, Principal Chan Chen Ng Wei Xiang* ENGLISH HORN Seow Yibin E-FLAT CLARINET Miao Kaiwen CLARINET Vincent Goh, Principal Chua Jay Roon* Benjamin Wong BASS CLARINET Daniel Yiau BASSOON Lim Tee Heong, Principal Stephen Mak* Shi Jia Ao* CONTRABASSOON Emerald Chee
OFFSTAGE TRUMPET Kenny NuttakamonOoi Supattranont* OFFSTAGE TROMBONE Stefan Benčić* Reema Chatterjee
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TIMPANI Lim Xing Hong, Principal Orathai Singhaart* PERCUSSION Rei Lim, Principal Lee Yu Ru* Chloe Lim Miranda Ong Swee Sian Adam Sharawi* HARP Charity Kiew, Principal Madelaine Chong* CELESTA Lim Wan Qi ORGAN Joanna Paul 25 HORN Chloe Chai* Chiu
TRUMPET Lau Wenrong, Principal Lim An Chun, Associate Principal Lee Jinjun Lim Jit NuttakamonXin Supattranont* TROMBONE Don Kow, Principal Hendrik Kwek Ng Jun Jie* Tan Weiboon BASS TROMBONE Jasper Tan TUBA Tan Yao Cong, Principal Teng Siang Hong
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BOARD DIRECTORSOF Christopher Cheong, Project Lead Michael Huang, Assistant Project Lead Nathanael Goh, Human Resource Lee Jinjun, Human Resource Kimberlyn Wu, Human Resource Neo Wei Qing, Finance Rayner Tan, Ticketing Toh Xue Qian, Audience Experience Wu Tianhao, Library Chan Chen, Marketing Joel Hoe, Programme Booklet PROJECT TEAM 26 Lee Guan Wei Daniel, Acting Chairman Jenny Assoc.AngProf Chan Tze Law Chay ProfTohTanSusanChristopherChoongCheongLohPengChinXueQianBernardTan,Advisor
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