Monday, March 8, 2010

Live Performance Review

In feburary I went to Malasia and I enjoy a performance about Malasia symphony orchestra. I have to say that was fantastic.

The symphony hall of Malasia is smaller than Durian hall and darker. The seats are not very much. I have to formal ware. I took the leather shoes and suit. The lady are beautiful because wear the dress. And the hall is in the highest building of Asia. The architectural style is classical period style. So many pictures on the walls. The seats are all the green colour. It has three lines in the concert hall.

When the conductor was conducting the first note I felt amasing. Why I speak like this? The sound was very neat. The acoustic was clean from the beginning to the end. And the sound always toghter. The tempo, the dynamic and the pitch every players are played at the same. That was shocked me. Actually I never saw a performance like this. Before I saw the performance of Shanghai Aiyue symphony. It was great. But the two orchestas still are not a same level. The performance of Malasia symphony touched me. Before I do not really like to listen to symphony. But this performance let me know what is music and way so many people like to listen to live performance. No one has misatke. No one has a not clean and clearly note. And the tone color was pretty. Just a few notes of beginning that attracted me. Even the Singapore Phillharmony symphony orchetra does not give me the feeling such like this too. I am not mean the Singapore symphony is bad. Just lack of something. The Symphony of singapore is not such pefect. But the Symphony of Malasia is. This just is my own opinion. And since that moment I found I like to listen to live performance.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

He is too young to conduct, isn`t he?

I enjoy this performence by a venezuelan youth orchestra. I think he is absolutly a young genius conductor. I like his performance. I prefer his performance than the old conductor`s performance. I think he has powerful and fashion factor. And the old conductor does not have this. I can feel a kind of sence of human from his performance. The old conductor is more conservation and formalist. Today is a morden world. So I think the conductor should be more morden than before too. It can fit to more people. Actually he is not too young. That is my opinion. I listen the performance again and again. I love that.

I think people as young as him is not a problem. Young is not express inexperienced to be conducors. And young people need have more trians and tests. A young conductor will to be a old conductor. This is truth. Nobody can change that. So this is just a progression. We need to wait a inexperienced people to be a experience people. We give them more chance and let them to challenge themselves. This is very important. Maybe one day people who like us have to perform on the stage. But we are so young and experienced. This is the true thing we need to face.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

HOW MAKES ME FELL!

I like mozart. I think no one do not know him! He is amsing.
Why do i like mozart?
He born in Austria Salzburg. His father was a court musicians. So when he was too young his father taught about music. His father was very strict to him. And he has been called magical power. Actrully his music talent be found by his father. One day his father and a friend went back home and saw young mozart wrote something on the table. His father asked him what are you doing? He anwserd i was composing a scale. His father thought that was a game by mozart. But when he saw the scale seriously he found the scale was right and meanful. Since then mozart began his musical career. Everybody thought he was a magical power. But no one knows genius is also to do work hard. Thought I had come all the art tasks are more demanding of people do not is wrong. no one would like me to spend so much time and thought to engage in composer; No one famous composer`s work that i do not spend so many times to it.Genius is not as we imagine.
He is a who love life.He poetic and full of emotion. The naive, simple, always elated. He was prone to moving, love to shed a tear, with female-like tenderness. His innocence is not deleted, and like a child filled with wonder, never seem to grow up. That pesonality what i like!
So his music is very relax. His music has a particular natrural feeling and can taken me to back to basic enviroment. This thins are slowly and slowly disapered from the world.
I admire him. He has the more things muscian should have.
He let me know the talent is also a need to work can there be success!
Such misleading simplicity is the real art of hidden art.
These two points were he tought me!
I will put the the Marriage of Figaro`s link here to share to anyone. If you are intrested,you can click on the link to listen to how about this picec and what you will to learn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oKU94kxv-o

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

introductions and musical influences

My name is Guo Peiling. I am 19 years old. I am from lanzhou of china. It is a small town. It is in the north west of china.

I have study music 7 years. I played my instrument when iwas 12 years old. My instrument is bassoon. I have two major teachers. One is Song Zhihong. He is a bassoon teacher in the Shanghai music middle school. The other one is Zhang Jinming. He is a bassoon teacher and a wind systerm director. And my parents all are desingers. So i think maybe it has some conection between that!

It is a easy reason for i study music. One day i was warching TV. Suddenly i saw the piano on TV. All of a sudden i want to play piano. And then i told to my mother. He told that to my father. Finally, my father told to his friend. His friend`s daughter is play piano and study piano in Shanghai music school. This friend adviced my father that let me to learn one instrumen too like his daughter. My father thought it is a good idear. So this friend said bassoon is a good instrment and do not have so many people to learn it. Because it is too expensive and rare. My father said ok.

And then iwent to the teacher` s home. The luckly thing is he had bought one new bassoon. My father ask me that do you want to learn it? I had not any hesitated and said no problem. Then my father gave money to teacher to bought this bassoon and i became to his student. When i learned one month later that my father`s friend asked me that do you want to admitted to Shanghai music middle school? I said no problem too.

I remember that time was my five grade in premary school. I never leave any imformation to my school teaher and classmate. I went to shanghai. I met my first really bassoon teacher in shanghai. And he suggestioned that we stay shanghai was better. I and my mother just stay ther. But it keeps one year. I miss my hometown very much. And i admitted into Shanghai music middle shool. When i graduated from high school. Some stuent told me that has a fantasy music school in singapore.
I still have not think a lot things about it. I just to attend the interview. And i passed.

The history just like that! I want to say thaks to my parents, that friend and my two teachers. They are all infuence to me!