I took leave for Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday was spent at the Esplanade. I went there with the sole purpose of relaxing. I didn't know how I was going to RELAX per se, but I tried nevertheless. I got myself Gustav Mahler's Symphony no. 5 and 7, in full score. Got myself a seat facing the ocean (very little people, good). Put on my head phones and proceeded to go through both symphonies. Not an easy feat I tell you. Its very difficult to read an orchestra score. Not to mention Mahler's works. Its kind of lame to many people, but I found it very exciting to be able to see the notes and hear the work being played. Until you see the score, you will not realise all the minute parts in the background. In some bars, of 4/4 time and of allegro time, the violins and violas have to play a set of triplets, a cluster of sixths, then fifths, then 4 semiquavers. Kudos. After Mahler, I wanted to proceed on to Rachmaninov's Preludes. Somehow I couldn't find them. I don't know why. Perhaps I've never had a connection with the Dewey Decimal system. One good thing then was that, as I was using the computer to browse through its catalogue of scores, I heard wonderful music being made inside the recital room. There was a girl inside, playing the piano, with a guy by her side. I couldn't see her face at first. I was trying to picture a face on that lady, as i pretended to use the computer and listen to her flawless performance. It was some contemporary piece, at least diploma in terms of skill level. After about 10 minutes, she came out. One word to describe her. Babe. A beauty with virtuosity definitely. Whether she had musicality was another thing. One thing for sure, I was damn well impress by her overall package (not PACKAGE if you know what I mean). *bows* After she had left, it was back to the scores for me. I found George Gershwin's An American in Paris. It was even more fun than listening to Mahler. Haha. SSO should play it in the future. Would like to see if our soloists can match up to CSO's. HEH. Oh yeah, I went to the car show at Suntec (thanks for telling me, you know who you are). It was damn boring and I went there without bringing my camera. I didn't see Mercedes' modern cars, only their antique ones. There were some horrible racequeens at Subaru and Lexus. Tight budget huh. At least there weren't crowds to squeeze in between on a weekday, which was good. I think i should head down to HMV today to get myself a CD. Zzz Savant at 11/18/2004 11:14:00 am ;
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