I have never study music so intensive in my life before. Now it has come to use my rusty brain to churn out one more essay and here are 4 of the books which I borrowed to read to do my essay. Shag... never thought I will read so much in my life
Quick back to reading.
Taking a break from projects I rushed down from NTU to Yong Siew Toh to attend a trumpet masterclass.
After listening to the masterclass I find his teaching the trumpeters to play in a very orchestra character. By default the players were more or less seasoned to play trumpet in an orchestra.
I find some of his teaching which presents the virtuosity of the trumpeter very irrelevant to band like changing the colour of how the trumpet sounds, but the understanding of the music will date back to the history of classical music on how Hummel wants to present it.
I need to play more like an orchestra trumpeter rather than a band trumpeter. The sound that an orchestra trumpet makes is much more vibrant and intersting.
For now, I on my way back to NTU to continue the boring project. Sianz.
Today is a great day for my girlfriend and me as we went out to botanical garden and watch the Singapore Chinese Orchestra and New York Philharmonic Brass Quintet.
First and foremost, I have finished my Bach essay. An achievement for me as I hate reading books, take reference and interpret it. Which means I now need to prepare for my next essay about classical music. Most probably I'll do the one on Sonata form as I have more things to write and finding information is easier.
Reviews about NYPO brass quintet. The brass quintet is played by 5 of the brass principal player. Unlike the band, the like to blast their instruments, but when they blast, it is well controlled and nice. The horn and trombone can even imitate the saxophone sound in the jazz music. They played a wide selections of music to cater to the audience. Every instrument even shows off a bit of their virtuosity during the performance. As a trumpeter, I realize that the trumpet players actually carries a a B flat trumpet and a C trumpet on stage other than the piccolo trumpet and the flugelhorn. Why is it so? Is it due to the tone quality of the instrument or is it about the transposibility of the instruments?
It was a fun time at botanical garden but it was rather inaccessible to Orchard Road as I couldn't find a bus stop nearby. Not knowing whether tha SIA hop on was free or not, we walked all the way along Nassim Road to Orchard road and took a bus to the glass house in order to savour my long awaited Fish & Co since I returned from Shanghai.
In fact, that was the first time which my girlfriend came to an outing with my bandmates. Though not well planned, we still have great fun talking together.
My mobile music editing studio when i was doing a basic recording last saturday.
If you have heard what I said during this week about the public sector networking event, putting teaching as a second class job is not what I meant. What I want to say is that with the grade that I am having, I will not have any long term prospect in public service sector.
Especially to all the NIE students which I am doing my music elective with, you guys are the people who make my 4 years in University worthwhie.
Hopefully this will allow me to blog a lot more. To those people who are still reading my blog, I am still surviving.
