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Smurfs Live in Genting International Showroom
I grew up watching the Smurfs Cartoon on TV. Yes I’m a Xennial…the Smurfs debuted on TV in the early 80s. I still remember we would sit around the Tv everyday at 5.30pm to watch these mysterious dancing and singing blue creatures of the forest rescuing the earth every time. Suffice to say, the younger generation have no idea who are the Smurfs except for that movie that came out in 2011 and some Happy Meal Toys from McD that I now use as deco in my garden. I thought it would be a great chance to introduce my childhood cartoons to my kids aged 6 and 9. There’s nothing…
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MPO’s Heavenly Mahler Review
Together with my guest Elsa, we attended the MPO’s Heavenly Mahler last week at the Petronas Towers. The programme features the renowned piece by Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 4. The conductor was Roberto Abbado, who was awarded the prestigious Premio Abbiati by the Italian Music Critics Association. I am not a professional musician, however, I was mesmerised how everything came alive as he started waving his wand. I always wondered how the whole orchestra aligns perfectly with the conductor. It seemed that the conductor always wore their heart on their sleeve. It was fascinating to witness and listen to how Abbado effortlessly translates each musical note and breathe life to it! The…
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Let’s Build A Band with Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
Last week, I got to enjoy a one of a kind Family Fun Day at the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. Let’s Build and Band was led by Conductor/Presenter Kevin Hathaway. From the title, I really didn’t know what to expect. How will we be building a band, I wondered. Entering the hall with my 6 year old son, I realised that the seats were all empty, non of the musicians have entered the hall as they usually do. Something must be amiss. Kevin Hathaway was dressed in a foreman’s suit while sitting on the floor. 2 minutes after I sat down, he started talking to the audience. I thought, how interesting…
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Let’s Build a Band with the MPO!
The Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) will present its ever popular Family Fun Day series with two shows on Saturday, 13 May 2018 at 2.30 pm and 4.30 pm at Dewan Filharmonik PETRONAS (DFP), KLCC. Together with conductor/presenter Kevin Hathway, the MPO, an ensemble of bowed strings, brass, woodwind and percussion instruments, will engage the audience to ‘build a band’ via an exciting programme; the light and bouncy Anderson’s Fiddle Faddle highlights the brilliance of the string instruments, Rutter’s Suite Lyrique demonstrates the different moods and amazing soundscapes, ragged Botsford’s Black And White Rag calls for a great dexterity from the pianist, and Abreu’s exotic Tico-Tico emulates the image of a…
