Sunday, April 15, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Its been a year since I last blogged! And my oh my how time flies- a year has passed, so many concerts, competitions, new musical experiences, new friends and new environments, while the old ones mature and blossom. Its been an amazing year.
This year's Singapore Youth Festival Central Judging of Choirs proved to be an amazing and yet memorable experience for me. All my three primary school choirs clinched Gold and Gold with Honours awards.
I am especially happy for my new girls' choir, Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' Primary School Choir, with which I took over in January 2012. They achieved their first ever Gold with Honours in just a mere span of 4 months, singing Nancy Telfer's Swallow and my Puppet's Dream.
Am also very proud of Junyuan Primary School for sustaining their Gold with Honours award. The entire journey and experience towards this SYF has been most enjoyable and fun. The choir learnt dozens of songs in just the past year and decided on my two works- The Magic of Wizard Davinza and The Fire Dance of Luna. They were amazing on stage! They always are. And i'm so proud of them.
Bedok Green also clinched a Gold award at this year's SYF and with a mere 33 members in the choir, I reckon they're the smallest gold choir so far in the competition. Well done bedok green! They really made such great music on stage.
After all, to me what is more important is the whole
process of SYF- not the competition itself- is it the process of the training, discipline, enjoyable and memorable experience that help cultivate and mould good personalities in choristers, and increasing choral and musical knowledge of the singers that really matters.
And now, the music making begins...
In the end it doesn't matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments that took your breath away...
