"The arts help you to surrender yourself to the unknown, and the beauty of a piece of art or music reinvigorates your belief that, as human beings, we have the ability to transcend today's problems and attain greatness." - Our CEO, Mr Chng Hak-Peng
The Straits Times, 25 Feb
"The arts help you to surrender yourself to the unknown, and the beauty of a piece of art or music reinvigorates your belief that, as human beings, we have the ability to transcend today's problems and attain greatness." - Our CEO, Mr Chng Hak-Peng
The Straits Times, 25 Feb
#sso #orchestra #concert #recital #event #sgunited #WuhanVirus #covid19 #media #StraitsTimes #newspaper
Enjoy an SSO performance at twilight in the beautiful setting of Gardens by the Bay. As the sun sets, Darrell Ang conducts a programme of well-known music by Brahms, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Lully. Why not bring a picnic to enjoy along with the music? And what’s more, your four-legged friends are welcome to join us as well!
Free Admission. No tickets required. All ages, all welcome.
Enjoy an SSO performance at twilight in the beautiful setting of Gardens by the Bay. As the sun sets, Darrell Ang conducts a programme of well-known music by Brahms, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Lully. Why not bring a picnic to enjoy along with the music? And what’s more, your four-legged friends are welcome to join us as well!
Free Admission. No tickets required. All ages, all welcome.
#sso #orchestra #concert #recital #event #gbtb #picnic #Tchaikovsky #Prokofiev #Lully #Brahms #Mozart
Complimentary Tickets for Frontline Workers: In addition, we'd like to invite healthcare workers, public transport and taxi drivers, as well as private-hire drivers in Singapore to our concerts, as a gesture of our appreciation for your contributions during this trying time. Please visit the link below to find out how you can get a pair of complimentary tickets.
Complimentary Tickets for Frontline Workers: In addition, we'd like to invite healthcare workers, public transport and taxi drivers, as well as private-hire drivers in Singapore to our concerts, as a gesture of our appreciation for your contributions during this trying time. Please visit the link below to find out how you can get a pair of complimentary tickets.
#sso #orchestra #concert #recital #event #sgunited #WuhanVirus #covid19 #giveaway #TicketGiveaway
Piano Piece Pick #17 - Here's something very different... from Ukrainian jazz pianist and composer, Alexander Tsfasman. This is "Stay With Me".
At the heart of the living room sits his first love – a grand piano purchased when he was 23. “I found that having the piano placed right here gives the best acoustics so it actually fills the house with music. The triple volume ceiling allows the sound to go all the way up three levels,” he proudly revealed.
The most ostentatious detail about the three-storey mansion is a full glass elevator that links all three floors from the living room.
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At the heart of the living room sits his first love – a grand piano purchased when he was 23. “I found that having the piano placed right here gives the best acoustics so it actually fills the house with music. The triple volume ceiling allows the sound to go all the way up three levels,” he proudly revealed.
The most ostentatious detail about the three-storey mansion is a full glass elevator that links all three floors from the living room.
Zsuzsanna Foldi has been deaf all her life. Still, with her hands placed on the double bass, sitting among musicians in Budapest's Danubia orchestra, she can enjoy and literally feel Beethoven's famous Fifth Symphony.
"When I sat next to the musician who played the bass today, I started crying," she said.
Zsuzsanna Foldi has been deaf all her life. Still, with her hands placed on the double bass, sitting among musicians in Budapest's Danubia orchestra, she can enjoy and literally feel Beethoven's famous Fifth Symphony.
"When I sat next to the musician who played the bass today, I started crying," she said.
Pigs might not fly, but LiLou the therapy pig wants to make air travel less stressful.
The five-year-old Juliana pig and her owner, Tatyana Danilova, are part of San Francisco International Airport’s "Wag Brigade" - a program that brings therapy animals to the airport to cheer passengers up and help ease travel anxieties.
Dressed in a pilot’s cap and with toenails painted bright red, LiLou breezes through the metal detector at airport security and trots to the departure gates... See More
Pigs might not fly, but LiLou the therapy pig wants to make air travel less stressful.
The five-year-old Juliana pig and her owner, Tatyana Danilova, are part of San Francisco International Airport’s "Wag Brigade" - a program that brings therapy animals to the airport to cheer passengers up and help ease travel anxieties.
Dressed in a pilot’s cap and with toenails painted bright red, LiLou breezes through the metal detector at airport security and trots to the departure gates. She raises a hoof in greeting, poses for selfies and entertains departing passengers with a tune on her toy piano.
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If you’re going to ruin a New Year's Eve performance by punk singer and performance artist Amanda Palmer by failing to switch your mobile phone to ‘silent’, you should understand there will be consequences.
In this case, the mobile phone belonged to a track-suited man, who was quickly given up by his fellow audience members. His punishment? To complete Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1 while Palmer quaffed her New Year's Eve champagne.
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If you’re going to ruin a New Year's Eve performance by punk singer and performance artist Amanda Palmer by failing to switch your mobile phone to ‘silent’, you should understand there will be consequences.
In this case, the mobile phone belonged to a track-suited man, who was quickly given up by his fellow audience members. His punishment? To complete Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1 while Palmer quaffed her New Year's Eve champagne.
#AmandaPalmer #concert #performing #tchaikovsky #concerto #humour
A cellist can’t help but give the four-legged intruder a stroke (completely understandable), which is met by a roar of laughter from the audience. Obviously fed up with the cellists, the cat then...
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A cellist can’t help but give the four-legged intruder a stroke (completely understandable), which is met by a roar of laughter from the audience. Obviously fed up with the cellists, the cat then...
Forget clapping during movements or the shrill call of a mobile – now it’s cats who are disrupting classical concerts.
A live orchestral concert was disrupted in possibly the cutest way – after a stray cat wandered obliviously onto the stage.
Weaving carelessly between the musicians during a show in Istanbul, the fearless feline soon became the centre of attention.
Forget clapping during movements or the shrill call of a mobile – now it’s cats who are disrupting classical concerts.
A live orchestral concert was disrupted in possibly the cutest way – after a stray cat wandered obliviously onto the stage.
Weaving carelessly between the musicians during a show in Istanbul, the fearless feline soon became the centre of attention.
"What a special experience to play on these beautiful pianos inside the Vault during my first visit to Steinway's New York Factory. Please let me know what you'd like to see next with Steinway :) You are the reason I got invited, so thank you and thank you, Steinway, for the privilege." - Tiffany Poon.
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"What a special experience to play on these beautiful pianos inside the Vault during my first visit to Steinway's New York Factory. Please let me know what you'd like to see next with Steinway :) You are the reason I got invited, so thank you and thank you, Steinway, for the privilege." - Tiffany Poon.
Syntonic Comma is a small comma type interval between two musical notes, equal to the frequency ratio 81:80 (= 1.0125) (around 21.51 cents).
Two notes that differ by this interval would sound different from each other even to untrained ears, but would be close enough that they would be more likely interpreted as out-of-tune versions of the same note than as different notes.
The comma is also referred to as a Didymean comma because it is the amount by which Didymus corrected the... See More
Syntonic Comma is a small comma type interval between two musical notes, equal to the frequency ratio 81:80 (= 1.0125) (around 21.51 cents).
Two notes that differ by this interval would sound different from each other even to untrained ears, but would be close enough that they would be more likely interpreted as out-of-tune versions of the same note than as different notes.
The comma is also referred to as a Didymean comma because it is the amount by which Didymus corrected the Pythagorean major third (81:64, around 407.82 cents) to a just major third (5:4, around 386.31 cents).
Someone commented: "My music teacher in school taught me, Eastern music has quarter tones and third tones. When I recently looked up closer what just intonation of keys means, I found the syntonic comma. The syntonic comma is about a ninth tone. There is half, quarter, third and ninth, but no eighth note I'm aware of."
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Someone commented: "My music teacher in school taught me, Eastern music has quarter tones and third tones. When I recently looked up closer what just intonation of keys means, I found the syntonic comma. The syntonic comma is about a ninth tone. There is half, quarter, third and ninth, but no eighth note I'm aware of."
#QuarterTone #tuning #teacher #learning #theory #SyntonicComma
A quarter tone is a pitch halfway between the usual notes of a chromatic scale or an interval about half as wide (aurally, or logarithmically) as a semitone, which itself is half a whole tone.
Quarter tones divide the octave by 50 cents each, and have 24 different pitches.
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A quarter tone is a pitch halfway between the usual notes of a chromatic scale or an interval about half as wide (aurally, or logarithmically) as a semitone, which itself is half a whole tone.
Quarter tones divide the octave by 50 cents each, and have 24 different pitches.
This Sonata was written in the years 1946-47. Composed in the quarter tone system, it responds to a tone invented by Alois Hába.
Obi keys/synth engine reprogrammed for 24-tone music.
One of the greatest strengths of synthesis over acoustic is the ability to program alternate tuning systems - any you can imagine.
Not all hardware synths can do this, though. It is the preserve of only a few - and one of the strengths of DSI instruments and the OB6 i.e. creating and installing your own tuning system on the synth.
Obi keys/synth engine reprogrammed for 24-tone music.
One of the greatest strengths of synthesis over acoustic is the ability to program alternate tuning systems - any you can imagine.
Not all hardware synths can do this, though. It is the preserve of only a few - and one of the strengths of DSI instruments and the OB6 i.e. creating and installing your own tuning system on the synth.
Stephen Hough on the Anxieties and Etiquette of a Life in Music.
Excerpted from "Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More"
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Stephen Hough on the Anxieties and Etiquette of a Life in Music.
Excerpted from "Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More"
14 Songs That 'Rip Off' Classical Music!
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14 Songs That 'Rip Off' Classical Music!
An image from video footage showing violinist Dagmar Turner playing the violin as doctors monitored her movements on screens during her brain surgery on Jan 31. She helped surgeons avoid damage to her brain during the operation to remove a tumour by playing her instrument.
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An image from video footage showing violinist Dagmar Turner playing the violin as doctors monitored her movements on screens during her brain surgery on Jan 31. She helped surgeons avoid damage to her brain during the operation to remove a tumour by playing her instrument.
Elton John performed Candle in the Wind/Goodbye England's Rose on the piano at Princess Diana's Funeral, on September 6th, 1997.
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Elton John performed Candle in the Wind/Goodbye England's Rose on the piano at Princess Diana's Funeral, on September 6th, 1997.
#EltonJohn #PrincessDiana #funeral #live #teleprompter #performing #BernieTaupin #WestminsterAbbey
British singer-songwriter Elton John said he was so worried about getting the words wrong when performing an adaptation of Candle In the Wind at Princess Diana's funeral that he had a teleprompter installed by the piano.
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British singer-songwriter Elton John said he was so worried about getting the words wrong when performing an adaptation of Candle In the Wind at Princess Diana's funeral that he had a teleprompter installed by the piano.
#EltonJohn #PrincessDiana #funeral #live #teleprompter #performing #BernieTaupin #WestminsterAbbey
Comprising three rectangular blocks oriented around a central courtyard and 30m-long swimming pool, this house not only accommodates seven family members, but also holds several surprises too.
The living room, for example, is spacious enough to accommodate a grand piano, and affords excellent vantage points of the front garden, the courtyard and the swimming pool.
Comprising three rectangular blocks oriented around a central courtyard and 30m-long swimming pool, this house not only accommodates seven family members, but also holds several surprises too.
The living room, for example, is spacious enough to accommodate a grand piano, and affords excellent vantage points of the front garden, the courtyard and the swimming pool.
Music China is Asia’s main musical instrument trade fair. The exhibition took place last month (October) and attracted around 2,400 exhibitors from 34 countries, and more than 120,000 visitors from 80 different countries.
Two of the more impressive instruments on display were from Fazioli and Bechstein.
- Fazioli F183 Marco Polo
- C. Bechstein “The Sphinx”
Music China is Asia’s main musical instrument trade fair. The exhibition took place last month (October) and attracted around 2,400 exhibitors from 34 countries, and more than 120,000 visitors from 80 different countries.
Two of the more impressive instruments on display were from Fazioli and Bechstein.
- Fazioli F183 Marco Polo
- C. Bechstein “The Sphinx”
#MusicChina #exhibition #event #fazioli #bechstein #MarcoPolo #sphinx #buy #parent #teacher
