MPO yet again!

So this time I was the organizer and I was looking for another 9 people to join me for last night's performance, and it ended up we had a total of 13 people! It was fun! The performances were awesome as usual, but I guess for the starting performance was abit...boring...wahahah...seriously...but it was nice, kinda forestry sounds all (Song of the Nightingale - Le chant du rossigol)by Igor Stravinsky, then there was the Scyhian Suite by Sergei Prokofiev. The second part titled Tshuchbog and Dance of the Monsters was very loud! So i guess that's how monsters sound when they dance! =P And then after the interval we had Gérard Caussé playing the Viola Concerto. He was enjoying himself, which is really important! And he was wearing some different looking shoes which looks like it fits your feet or something...ahahaha..but he was so damn cool!!

This was the program:

Sat 3 Feb 07, 8.30pm

ODYSSEY
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
Kees Bakels conductor
Gérard Caussé viola

STRAVINSKY Le chant du rossignol
PROKOFIEV Scythian Suite (Op.20)
BARTÓK Viola Concerto
SCRIABIN Poem of Ecstasy (Op.54)

Endings and beginnings. Making a welcome return, Gérard Caussé brings us the Viola Concerto which Bartók was working on at the time of his death, while Kees Bakels steers the MPO through the exotic soundworld of Scriabin’s penultimate orchestral score. From the other end of composers’ careers, Stravinsky started his “Song of the Nightingale” two years before he rocketed to international fame, while the Scythian Suite was Prokofiev’s youthful attempt to shock the Russian musical establishment.

Pre-Concert Events: Sat 7.30pm, Sun 2.00pm

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I missed the pre-concert event because we didn't plan to go for it, but I did almost go tho...ahahaha..ah well, there's always next time...so anyway after the performance we did some alot of camwhoring took alot of pictures, and then after a while I saw the viola dude walk past and then I was like "should I ask him? should I???" He was talking to somebody when I went to him (I ran across the..uh...place :P) And then I went to him and said:

Me: Excuse me sir, you're the viola...guy right!
Viola dude (smiling cutely): Yes (or wassit yeah? I dunno!!)
Me: Can I take a picture with you?
Viola dude (still smiling cutely): Of course! (Or wassit yes, sure, no problem I can't remember arrghh!!)
Me (smiling like a dumbass): Yay! (okok so maybe I said that to myself)

And then he took off his trench coat (he is afterall, French!) and then another group of old dudes wanted to talk to him then I just waited and then he said to them "Excuse me while I take a picture with this young lady here." YOUNG LADY HE SAID YOUNG LADY!!! ahahahah...now I sound like a deranged fan :P Anyway we took a picture, and he squeezed me the whole time we took the pic (which I don't think was that long anyway) but it was so exciting!! He's so niceeee!! And then after I took with him another girl wanted to take a pic with him and then Sarah took a pic with him..So sorry Sarah your pic was blur, it looked ok on the LCD screen after I took the pic!! My hands are getting more unsteady, or it could be that I was hungry and so my hands shook....hahaha

Anyway it was really fun, going with this bunch of people, and also because I was the organizer! :P So here are some pics, and as always my fave pic is of me and the viola dude!



Me, Raphael, Sarah


All the guys


All da girls


Me n Raph


Me n Cheow (our transport for the night!)

Me n Gary


My fave pic of all! Me and Mr. Gérard Caussé (awww he squeezed huggable me!)


That's all! Quite a lengthy post, and I loved every minute of the event! Next outing would be 3rd Mar =)

Awww...huggable me and Mr. Gérard Caussé....*bahagia* =P