{"id":217,"date":"2018-08-09T21:45:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/?page_id=217"},"modified":"2019-08-01T23:33:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T15:33:28","slug":"gala-concert","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2019\/programme\/gala-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Saxophone Symposium 2019 Gala Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Singapore Saxophone Symposium 2019 Gala Concert<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday, 4 August 2019, 7.30pm &#8211; 9.30pm<br>Lee Foundation Theatre<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Georg Philipp Telemann: <em>Sonata for Flute\/Violin in G major, TWV 40:101<br>I. Soave<br>II. Andante<br>III. Allegro<\/em><br><strong>Alexis Seah and Samuel Phua, saxophones<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Mackey: <em>Strange Humors<\/em><br><strong>Ramu Thiruyanam, djembe<\/strong><br><strong>h2 quartet<\/strong><br><br>Marc Mellits: <em>Groove Machine<\/em><br><strong>h2 quartet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zechariah Goh: Souvenir from Singapore<br><strong>Psaiko Quartet and Rodrigo Vila<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Waris Sukonpatipark: <em>Incandescence<\/em><br><strong>Salaya Saxophone Ensemble<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Intermission<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jun Nagao: <em>Paganini Lost<\/em><br><strong>Joseph Lallo and Chien-Kwan Lin, saxophones<br>I-An Chen, piano<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00c1stor Piazzolla: <em>Histoire du Tango pour saxophone et piano<\/em><br><em> II. Caf\u00e9, 1930<br> III. Night Club, 1960<\/em><br><strong>Rodrigo Vila, saxophone<br>I-An Chen, piano<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Philippe Geiss: <em>Sir Patrick<\/em><br>Jerry Bergonzi \/ Philippe Geiss: <em>New In The City<\/em><br><strong>Philippe Geiss and MIT Saxophone Ensemble<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jay Ong: <em>Pelog and Play<\/em> (World premiere)<br>Manuel de Falla, arr. Fukio Ensemble: <em>La Vida Breve; Danse Espagnole<\/em><br><strong>Xin Saxophone Quartet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ChihChun-Chisun Lee: <em>Concerto for Saxophone Quartet with Saxophone Choir<\/em> (World premiere)<br>The piece was made possible by a grant from the Fromm Music Foundation.<br><strong>Keuris Quartet &amp; MIT Saxophone Ensemble<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This concerto grosso is written for the Keuris Quartet and the MIT Saxophone Ensemble, and comprises of three movements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I. \u201cRhyme\u201d<br><\/em>The prime concept of this movement is the flow between each instrument, as well as the variety of sceneries that creates different textures and dialogues within soloist group and the ensemble. Sentences are divided and continued in multiple directions to completion through\u00a0connections, call and response, and building various layers of music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>II. \u201cColour\u201d<\/em><br>This features the soloist group while the saxophone choir answers and mirrors the colors of multiphonics and the particular patterns involving combinations of microtones.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>III. \u201cRhythm movements&#8221;<br><\/em>The saxophone choir represents a passacaglia; each time of passacaglia is emphasized via different techniques and sonorities. By using key clicks, blowing and tonguing without mouthpiece, subtones and then ordinary tones, the same pattern results quite differently each time.\u00a0\u00a0Over this,\u00a0the saxophone quartet travels through the breakdown of different dance rhythms and patterns from Taiwan, Germany, Argentina, Russia and Poland, the nationalities of each member from Keuris Quartet and MIT Saxophone Ensemble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore Saxophone Symposium 2019 Gala Concert Sunday, 4 August 2019, 7.30pm &#8211; 9.30pmLee Foundation Theatre Georg Philipp Telemann: Sonata for Flute\/Violin in G major, TWV 40:101I. SoaveII. AndanteIII. AllegroAlexis Seah and Samuel Phua, saxophones John Mackey: Strange HumorsRamu Thiruyanam, djembeh2 quartet Marc Mellits: Groove Machineh2 quartet Zechariah Goh: Souvenir from SingaporePsaiko Quartet and Rodrigo Vila [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/217\/revisions\/590"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}