{"id":554,"date":"2012-05-30T22:27:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T14:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/?p=554"},"modified":"2012-06-04T23:38:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T15:38:47","slug":"an-evening-of-nostalgia-with-the-tang-quartet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/an-evening-of-nostalgia-with-the-tang-quartet","title":{"rendered":"An Evening of Nostalgia With the T&#8217;ang Quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though I&#8217;ve heard of the Singapore-based T&#8217;ang Quartet, I&#8217;ve never really heard them play for some reason. When I found that they were performing at the Singapore Arts Festival 2012 (and for free too!) I decided to watch as well as shoot them perform.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhat inline with the festival&#8217;s theme of &#8220;Our Lost Poems&#8221;, the quartet gave a program titled &#8220;A Musical Snapshot of Nostalgia&#8221;. Performed at the main stage of the Festival Village at Esplanade Park with a backdrop of shipping containers and the Singapore Skyline, it featured several songs which were familiar to most of us, but almost forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>The quartet covered familiar folk favourites like <em>Bengawan Solo<\/em>, <em>Burung Kakaktua<\/em> as well as medleys of <em>xinyao<\/em> and themes from old Chinese TV series such as Kopi-O. They also played medleys of songs from our parent&#8217;s generation such as \u73ab\u7470\u73ab\u7470\u6211\u7231\u4f60 and\u00a0\u5f80\u4e8b\u53ea\u80fd\u56de\u5473. The pieces were arranged by Pang Kok Jun from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music and were played brilliantly by the quartet.<\/p>\n<p>It was certainly an enjoyable evening watching the quartet perform all these familiar old favourites. Thanks to my friend YS Lee for lending me his Nikkor 85mm f\/1.8D for the close ups.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7221\/7335871820_9fae0af1bc_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The T&#39;ang Quartet performs to the big crowd at the main stage of the Festival Village.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7080\/7335890416_bd92bb84c2_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The T&#39;ang Quartet playing songs of a forgotten past.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7102\/7335879972_86853fbec0_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ng Yu-Ying, 1st Violin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7223\/7335893534_287a72db18_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1st Violinist Ng Yu-Ying and 2nd violinist Ang Chek Meng<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7231\/7335894902_277e823ba7_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Violist Lionel Tan and Cellist Leslie Tan (background)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 424px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8163\/7335901210_6162f1a34a_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cellist Leslie Tan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a couple of videos of them in action. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WxYMmDd64Jw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z351db3ijBY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I&#8217;ve heard of the Singapore-based T&#8217;ang Quartet, I&#8217;ve never really heard them play for some reason. When I found that they were performing at the Singapore Arts Festival 2012 (and for free too!) I decided to watch as well as shoot them perform. Somewhat inline with the festival&#8217;s theme of &#8220;Our Lost Poems&#8221;, the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/an-evening-of-nostalgia-with-the-tang-quartet\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Evening of Nostalgia With the T&#8217;ang Quartet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}