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.

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Piano Piece Pick #17 - Here's something very different... from Ukrainian jazz pianist and composer, Alexander Tsfasman. This is "Stay With Me".

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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.

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Music is.. love. Music is.. passion. Spread the Music, Love, Passion to your loved ones with Yamaha's wide range of instruments!

Enjoy Great Deals available from now till 31st March 2020.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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14 Songs That 'Rip Off' Classical Music!

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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.

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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.

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