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Good Luck for the concert!

Da Capo 2008

Here is the poster that everyone has been waiting for!
Details of the concert are below, and contact us for tickets before they sell out!

NUS Wind Symphony presents Da Capo 2008 featuring Extreme Make-over

Date: 17 Oct 2008(Friday)
Venue: Victoria Concert Hall
Time: 1930hrs
Conductor: Mr Leonard Tan
Tickets: $12 (Stalls), $14 (Circle)

Repertoire:
King Cotton - John Philip Sousa, edited by Frederick Fennell
GR Selections - Masamicz Amano
Children's March "Over the hills and far away" - Percy Aldridge Grainger, Revised by Frank Erickson
Pictures at an Exhibition - Modeste Moussorgsky, Transcribed by Mark H. Hindsley

--Interval--

Indiana Jones Selection - John Williams arr. H.V.D.HEIDE
October - Eric Whitacre
Sleepers, Awake! - J.S. Bach Adapted and arranged by Alfred Reed
Extreme Make-over - Johan de Meij

For tickets, E-Mail US

The One's Birthday

It was Mr Tan's Birthday!







Hope you enjoyed the cake!

Welcome Tea 2008

The welcome tea for 2008 was completed successfully, with many many freshies joining us for the evening.

I was appointed the official photographer by our dear Mr. President.

Special credit for Benjamin, our dear student conductor cum concert master, for his kindness in lending me his most expensive lens.

NUSWS Welcome Tea

Hey friends! The NUS Wind Symphony will be having our annual Welcome Tea on 14 August, 6.30pm, at the Centre for the Arts (CFA) Auditorium.

We welcome all NUS students with prior band experience! Do come down and join us for a marvelous time of music-making and fun!

For enquiries, feel free to contact Khee Nguen or Hui Koon at 96363640 and 92310637 respectively. We hope to see you there!

DnD

Continental Overture

I don't know whether it is correct to be blogged here.

Anyway, I found this "Continental Overture" by Johan de Meij. The part after 4 minutes plus just like another planet earth.

Hope this can bring back your enthu memories about us all playing Planet Earth. Or at least, bring up the mood for the next band prac!

Oh and also, good luck for your exam!

In the news

So...what's in the news today? There's the usual update on the hunt for Mas selamat, there's the Federal Reserve slashing interest rates on Wall Street and then there's(wait for it) us!

Ahem. So for all you guys who are not subscribed to Straits Times, the article is reproduced below. It is is in the Life! section. Alternatively, you might want to check out(and keep) Cloud's super high resolution scanned version that should have arrived in your yahoo groups mail. =)

A band on the march

The NUS Wind Symphony marks its 40th year with flag-waving fervour and blaring sound effects

By Chang Tou Liang

concert IN TEMPO 2008 National University of Singapore Wind Symphony Leonard Tan, Conductor University Cultural Centre/Last Saturday FOR its 40th anniversary celebration, the National University of Singapore Wind Symphony went back to its roots as a marching military band. Beginning with two marches, Gerry Soliano's patriotic and Sousa-inspired Crescent And Stars and Vaughan Williams' folksong Seventeen On Sunday, the general upbeat tone of the evening was set. The orchestra, now close to 100 strong, responded with gusto and confidence under budding conductors Ian Lum and Martin Lim respectively, before its music director Leonard Tan took centrestage. For the 'serious' items requiring more of an interpretation, the young outfit did not disappoint. Sibelius' Finlandia had more blare than usual in its all-wind guise, and voices otherwise sung by the strings were lost but its nationalistic, flag-waving fervour came through. The big work of the programme was Dutch wind band-meister Johan de Meij's Third Symphony, also titled Planet Earth. At 50 minutes, it is overblown to say the least. A solid five minutes of sound effects - the Big Bang and whizzing planets - began the work, and it meandered from the sound world of Holst's Neptune The Mystic before unfolding like some long-winded Richard Strauss tone poem. More cliches abound, from the chugging of Adams and Glass' minimalism to the inevitable big melodies from a quasi-John Williams celestial score. Those more accustomed to Mahler and Bruckner's longeurs might have been bored, but conductor Tan's youthful exuberance kept the ensemble from flagging, ensuring a highly spirited reading that lurched from one climax to another. The band alumni - now in their 60s - accorded the performance a standing ovation. And rightly so, from its humble beginnings at Bukit Timah campus to the spanking new home at Kent Ridge, the band had indeed come of age.

Relive Planet Earth

I'm just wondering.. How much do you all want to relive playing Planet Earth, in Esplanade?

Damn I want!

Beautiful moments

Sometimes we have disagreements

"Harlow, we didn't come in earlier hor!!!"

"Yes u guys did!!!"

"That's b'cos XXXXX gave us the WRONG CUE!!!"

"U guys were dreaming *&*$(#"

"Hey we came in together & in tune !"

But we still want to be loved! =D

See us in Action! ... ok ok , we(i.e the smaller DBs) promise not to come in 4 bars earlier...

InTempo 2008

15 Mar (Sat)

5pm

NUS University Cultural Centre