To quote from the movie “Music and Lyrics”: Sophie Fisher: A melody is like seeing someone for the first time. The physical attraction. Sex. Alex Fletcher: I so get that. Sophie Fisher: But then, as you get to know the person, that’s the lyrics. Their story. Who they are underneath. It’s the combination of the [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Harmony Is The Dress Sense
Monday, 21 December, 2009
Carolling
Sunday, 20 December, 2009
Today was an amazing day, and I really want to thank God for it. I had organised carolling for my church today, starting from after lunch all the way till after dinner. As in, we went to various households to carol and share the message of Christmas and God’s love to them. It was a [...]
Go Cowboys!
Sunday, 20 December, 2009
Woo hoo! Cowboys win their biggest game of the season, against the unbeaten Saints at New Orleans! Who would’ve thought? Sometimes I think the Cowboys are just like Liverpool – immensely popular team which hasn’t won a championship in ages, has enough star power to sustain the media’s interest, is able to rise to the [...]
“White Christmas”: An Exercise In Harmony
Saturday, 19 December, 2009
Someone once told me that there is no such thing as a wrong chord. Which I believe is true…I believe there are many different ways to harmonise a song, some better than others. Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about harmony and how it can totally change the complexion of a song. Now harmony is [...]
iSing The Musicals
Saturday, 19 December, 2009
I was very pleased and honoured to be a part of the ensemble at “iSing The Musicals” at the Esplanade Library recently. Basically Desmond asked if I could take on the piano duties and I hesitated a bit before agreeing to it, cos I wasn’t very confident of my piano abilities. But I agreed to [...]
Harmony In Songs
Friday, 18 December, 2009
I’m currently reading this book called “The Musical From the Inside Out” by Stephen Citron which I picked up from PageOne bookstore recently, and I’m enjoying it very much. (It doesn’t hurt to read too many books!) It makes many good and interesting points, and is filled with fascinating anecdotes on Broadway. One part I [...]
An Analysis
Thursday, 17 December, 2009
I know I posted this same video in the previous post, but I was just watching this video again intently, and I can’t help but think that it’s such an incredible piece of construction. Everything single thing about it is so well thought-out. It helps that it featured the incomparable Michael Ball as Marius, as [...]
More On “Les Miserables”
Sunday, 13 December, 2009
As you know I’ve recently been listening to my “Les Miserables 10th Anniversary Concert” 2-disc set, and the more I listen to it, the more I realise how brilliant the songs in the musical are. (Well, it didn’t hurt that the star-studded cast includes singers like Michael Ball, Lea Salonga and Ruthie Henshall.) My current [...]
Catching Tunes
Sunday, 13 December, 2009
Some nights you find yourself in the mood for “catching tunes”. That is when you sit by the piano and just try to come up little motifs…anything at all, really. Little wisps of melody, chord changes, whatever you can grasp at. Anything that might give you the inspiration to write a song with. That’s not [...]
Film Scoring Vs. Song Writing
Friday, 11 December, 2009
I was just watching this very interesting clip of Hans Zimmer tonight, and a few thoughts struck me. Y’know, I’ve always told myself that I would love to be either a film score composer or a Broadway musical composer…but on second thoughts I think I would prefer being the Broadway musical composer. You see, the [...]
