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Some of my favourites!!!

FFX-2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyqX1SNuwzc

FFX: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMdrnfyip9M

This one is really funny! Real life Final Fantasy!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svQvBiP76cE

Beat this!

Beatboxing with a flute!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crfrKqFp0Zg

Think it can only be done with edge-tone instruments. If anyone can do this with a sax or oboe, those are not lips!

Aranjuez Guitar Quartet

This quartet is good. They sound pretty different from LAGQ, and their music is cool.

In the hall of the Mountain King: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bywu_UEATb4
"Danza ritual del fuego": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMQyCYWumQw
Pink Panther : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M97ZZ1EXHMI

我的美丽星期天

Ok ok... I know I'm biased in my view point towards TPGC's standard.
Seriously, I really haven't heard them in a concert before! All the reference I have is :

1. Singapore Classical Guitar Society Meeting
This was way way way years back. Considering if Ruby actually went for it, I think it probably means I'm year 2 or year 3 then. There was a vivaldi number done by the club, was it the adagio only? oh I can't remember... but I'm sure there wasn't any seat-moving allegro for sure.

2. the Yamaha Guitar Competition which took place like 3 years back? It was some 10 member group doing a spanish number with a tremolo-ing beginning and later going on to some knocking. And oh yes, the trio who did the piazolla piece was good!

3. Recently, the sharing session with the Germany group at the community centre. Ok their kids are pretty decent I must say, and of course the 9 year old wonder-boy Kevin.

I'm hoping to catch them this coming Sunday, 10 June at Esplanade Concert Hall. The people who told Nam Leng they were focusing on symphony orchestras and wind bands for the Beautiful Sunday series. Odd isn't it.

Seems like the programme line-up includes La Cumparsita and Granada. My god! One is a all-time favourite in local Niibori repertoire, the other is one of Guitaresque's 招牌菜.
有没有创艺???

Guitar ensemble repertoire is really one kind in the local scene. Rarely do you get to hear things that are out of the "guitar norm". If you visit guitar concerts often enough, you've probably heard a trillion times, "Canon in D", "La Cumparsita" etc. etc. *yawn* really puts me to sleep, unless they are rendered in an extremely humourous or cacophonic style.

I bet Daddy is going to mention again that the kid is just 9 years old. Ha ha ha

神速

Yo yo yo... Hiong Gai Gai...

this is likely the speed that Robert will go at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1ZKAnUIDg4

死无葬身之地...

godspeed

Shiok Shiok!

皮箱人演唱会: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPjVGWGAsKs

I suspect the camera-man is a blood related to ATKS.

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Nothing related to the above, but I'm mildly amused by SRJC's name for their guitar concert. Guess what?

Shiokissimmo!!!

Really odd name, first reminds me of a perfect fit for a signboard at a Japanese Red Light District soft porn outlet. Why?
It's Shiok cos you get to Kiss and 摸. and it sounds like a jap word.

ok ok no offence, but it really tickles me.

Now I have the tune for "Shokubutsu"(the soap commercial) in my head. Sing it using Shiokissimmo!!!

中重奖

Have got to hand it to Kenneth Hesketh.

Early music melodies are often modal and essentially repetitive. But the counterpoint written for the cantus firmus is tremendously colourful. The opening movement for Danceries is one such great example. Hell, there's at least 6 things going on at any one time(yes! it makes it very difficult to arrange for guitars, lots of hair tearing involved.), the parts display plenty of independence from each other, some of them forming their own line and sounds almost totally disassociative.

The blend they make is one masterpiece.

It's really meaningless to identify which chord is at which bar or beat; the counterpoint interplay is such well-intertwined dissonance and consonance. With myself being unfamiliar with modal tendencies, it's really hard for me to say where's the triad chord!

Anyway, this is a BIG work, spanning 4 movements. I'm working on it and wondering along the way if it's a little too much to ask of the musicians. Certainly the technical dexterity does not come close to that of Capriccio Espangnol, but the rhythmic and musical aspect may be more than it seems to be a simple 6-8 reverie.

Nonetheless, I'm quite determined to expose the guys to some early music, less we always get stuck at Bach or Handel, which are already essentially very much in the tonal arena. I don't think they want to do the F major Brandenburg straight after they return from their competition, less they still possess the nightmare debris of the G major counterpart. Ha ha ha.

I'm really hoping the full score of "Impressions of Japan" comes by too soon. I've ordered for it after knowing Robert is unable to find his copy, and apparently it's not exactly on its way yet. This is another folk thing that would do us good if we ever set foot onto Japan again, or in the event some Niibori Prof decides to pop by.

With Wai going away to do her masters, I've managed to assign/arrow/convince Jin to take up the soprano void. Looking for some 2 members to fill in some shoes in the group too. Hmmm. perhaps the masters is a ruse to allow her to transfer out of the Soprano and into the Prime section after she returns(if she returns). Gonna miss (or not!) all that relentless string plucking during rehearsals, ah well, then again, I don't think Jin is going to display any significant difference in rehearsal behaviour. Ho ho ho =)

Sounding chirpy today eh? Kinda happy and bored. Oh well, I guess it's a clear sign that life's treating me well.

I even got an invitation from maestro Hiong Gai Gai to play in a concerto.
Hell, how come TOTO never so lucky?!?!?!?