Saturday, April 14, 2007.1:23 AM

Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Orchestra Concert on 7th April at Esplanade Concert Hall featuring Qin Li-Wei

Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations was quite well done considering the accidents that always occurred in rehearsals. Qin Li-Wei's musical sensitivity and ensemble playing skills leaves me speechless at times. Prokofiev's R & J...rather disappointing. However, I think encores should never be performed if they're not rehearsed properly. If you want to do it, then please, have the decency to practice/rehearse it until it won't embarass everyone on stage. The experience was utterly painful. I have never heard a more BRUTAL and VULGAR Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance. Ok...maybe some were just too passionate in their playing that they started blasting their way through even though it wasn't their graduation concert. You can do that next time if we ever have fireworks in the concert hall ok? Then no one can hear those insensitive playing. But I think that's not going to happen for many years until someone invents concert-hall size fireworks that won't actually burn down your concert hall. So till then, please show some musical sensitivity when you're playing on concert stage at least...

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