Whenever the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music Orchestra puts on a show, it's always worth an evening of one's time. If anything, investment in the future generation of music makers (and we're not talking about that other ensemble here). Perhaps a little irrelevantly and irreverently, one is always sold and swayed on the fact that if their ( Read more... )

Scammed! Yet again... Hands up those of you who subscribed blind to the Singapore Sun Festival's An Italian Gala: Jose Carreras in Concert Tuesday evening? Well, yours truly has just one thing to say. Naples is in Italy. And that is to be read with scathing scarcasm. More on that later ( Read more... )

The Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music's ambitious concert presented the complementary pairing of the Romantic Fantasy Worlds of Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique ( Read more... )

The two arts are as alike as chalk and cheese, so for the composer, Yii Kah Hoe, to have conceived the notion of marrying both, much less carrying it to term was a bold and decisive move ( Read more... )