wow.. 17th of March 2007.. this day i shall remember 4ever..
National Choir of Malaysia in collaboration with The Dithyrambic Singers made up abt 100 ppl in total, together as a choir, we sang this awesome piece of beethoven– Symphony no.9.
This piece got 4 movements, the first 3 movements was performed beautifully by the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO). And the final movement, 4th movement.. with 4 famous soloist– Cecilia Yap (soprano); Heidrun Maria Hahn (alto); Lim Shieh Yih (Tenor); Cha Seng Tiang (baritone), standing at the very 1st row, followed by
the NSO, den finally 100 ppl choir standing at higher stage behind.. around 2 meters distanced from the conductor (Mustafa Fuzer Nawi) which standing align with the 4 soloist.
The 4 soloist has a great, powerful voice.. even while doing solo.. their voices manage to create echo in the Istana Budaya Panggung Sari. It was so damn cool.. their vocal is extremely good~~ although high pitch, you wont feel that as if it’s screaming or shouting.. n for the low voices.. their voices still can clearly be heard.. firm n strong..
The conductor conducted everybody.. n i sud say that he’s really good to be able to conduct such a big group.. lol.. he’s a strict conductor.. during rehearsals, he wont give face to anyone who’s talking while he is talking (that’s kinda scary).. he’ll juz scream straight at the face in front of everybody "SHUT UP!! DON’T TALK!!!" =="
The orchestra got scolded once n the guys of choir too.. hahahhhaha.. swt la..
Choral part for this piece of beethoven was fabulous.. v had to sing it in german.. kinda cool~~ n i get to learn some of the words such as bruder=brother.. =P
And 1 of the soloist is from germany, Heidrun Maria Hahn, she teached us the correct pronunciation n diction of each n every word.. n also giving some brief description, so that v could picture the song, and sing it with more ‘feelings’.. hahah
She is so kind that she even gave us a master class.. teached us some crucial tactic in singing.. the correct postures, the correct way of using the abdorminal muscles, correct opening of mouth n the theory behind it… etc.
Her explanation was brief, but much more easier to catch.. glad that she shared some of her singing techniques.. after her teachings, the choir sounded more soothing at higher pitches.. or else it sounded more like screaming than singing.. hahhah..
Tonight’s performance was great.. v did much better than the previous nite.. for this project, we juz need to perform one song for 2 nights.. N 2 nite is the last night.. After the grand ending.. where this piece ended with the highest peak, the audience applauded echoed the whole hall after that.. N some of them shouting "Bravo~! Bravo~!", there are few more asking for encore.. ^^y
And 1 thing really unexpected is.. the conductor really encore.. lol.. of coz not from the beginning.. we started from half of the 4th movement towards the end.. the audiences enjoyed the show a lot, i can tell.. hehe.. which feels me with satisfaction.. after all the trouble went thru.. well, it’s worth all of it after all~~ ^^
This was my very 1st time singing in such a big group.. 100 ppl… n also very glad that i could joined this project singing beethoven’s work~
Beethoven.. you’re really genius to compose such great piece.. hahahhaha.. starting to like classical music ed now.. XD
Wish that next year we got this kinda cool project again~~~~ woohoo~~~
