Oratorios & Masses II
Handel: Israel in Egypt If I had to select a single favorite single number from a large choral work, it’d have to be “Sing Ye to the Lord”, the finale from Handel’s Israel in Egypt. This oratorio isn’t as well-known
Oratorios & Masses I
As I remember it, the first oratorio I acquired in my classical music recollection wasn’t Handel’s Messiah, but Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten. The latter was a 1970s recording with the BBC Chorus & Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Colin Davis,
Choirs & Choruses
One of the interesting bits about Ling and me is that we were both choir conductors.:) Even though I applied to join choirs during during week 0 of my first year studies in NTU 17 years ago, I had no
Music Collections
The 20th of the month came about again. I picked up a whole bunch of classics to listen to, most of it I haven’t heard before. C.P.E. Bach’s keyboard concertos. I’ve always thought Mozart was the composer who wrote the
Showing at a local home cinema II
A follow-up on my post on home movies viewing from earlier this year. Not as many movies as the last post – have been terrifically busy.:( Babylon A.D (2008). Vin Diesel sure is getting typecast as the beefy action macho
Armor Class = –10
Check this out: body armor for your expensive DSLR, or in the case below for the D300: Niftly called ‘Camera Armor’, the manufacturer’s blib states that: “Custom Engineered for the Nikon D300, Camera Armor is an always on, protection system
R S P
For $180, I can buy… Two premium-priced PS3 games that’ll last me at least a week of play time; or A Seagate external 1 TB hard drive to backup all my photos and classical music MP3s which will be enough
Hong Kong Squatters II
Continued from my previous post! The NTU hostels themselves in the early 90s varied in age and quality. There were seven hostels, the newest one (VII) built like a swanky hotel resort. The hostel I spent my first two years
Hong Kong Squatters I
One of the big differences between NUS and NTU lies in that the main campus of NUS is in a semi-central location of Singapore. NTU, on the other hand, is located on the western end of the island. To get
D300 + MB-D10
Most of the pictures I took when I first had my SLR in the 80s were portrait shots. Now, the right way to take portrait-styled pictures is to use an underhand rather than an overhand grip. Besides that taking portrait
That French Guy
I don’t think there’re many children in Singapore taking piano lessons who haven’t played pieces by Richard Clayderman. Who’s he? Well, only one of the most successful romantic piano recording artistes ever, what with his 267 Gold and 70 Platinum
Oh the student life
About 16 years ago I was one of three NTU students invited to join the Annual Conference at Cameron Highlands organized by the NUS Varsity Christian Fellowship. It should normally had been a little weird since this was really an
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