Recently in Life! there was an article about local film composer Ricky Ho, who had won a Golden Horse award for “Best Original Film Score” for the film “Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale”. This was indeed a remarkable achievement, and the article basically chronicled his life and described how he got to where he [...]
Archive for the ‘Composers’ Category
Songwriting vs Film Scoring
Tuesday, 20 December, 2011
Stephen Schwartz
Sunday, 18 September, 2011
Because I’ll be watching “Wicked” again when it comes to Singapore, I’ve been brushing up on my knowledge of the songs in the musical. Been trying to get myself acquainted with as many songs as I can the past few weeks. And I’ve realised what a great songwriter Stephen Schwartz is. I mean, you’ve gotta [...]
Jerry Bock Dies
Thursday, 4 November, 2010
Heard this piece of news on the BBC this morning. The composer of one of the greatest musicals of all time has passed away. Farewell, Mr Bock.
Passing Of A Composer
Sunday, 11 July, 2010
A sad piece of news which I read about in the papers recently was that Ken Low, the composer of our well-known musical “Chang & Eng”, has recently passed away of pneumonia. Now I’ve never watched “Chang & Eng” before, and I’ve not heard of Ken Low before until this recent news. But nonetheless, when [...]
Stephen Sondheim Podcast
Sunday, 14 March, 2010
A fantastic interview with Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim that I discovered recently. Downstage Center – Stephen Sondheim I can’t recommend this highly enough. It’s highly informative, and I’ve listened through it twice. Now I’m not exactly the biggest fan of Sondheim, but I was fascinated by his insights and sharing, and learnt a great deal [...]
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 [...]
Flight To Neverland
Sunday, 6 December, 2009
I recently ordered the sheet music to John Williams’ “Greatest Hits”. It was fun playing through some of the themes, but the transcriptions were mostly quite difficult. My favourite? It is the theme from “Hook” called “Flight to Neverland” (above). Definitely my favourite John Williams theme of all, by far. (According to some fans, this [...]
Two Songs
Saturday, 28 November, 2009
Here are my two songs which I presented at the Songcraft concert last Saturday. Many thanks to Betty for helping me sing them. She was fantastic as always, and I’m deeply appreciative. And many thanks to Jerron for painstakingly editing and slicing up all the individual clips. Personally, I was not too pleased with some [...]
Songcraft’s 3rd Annual Concert!
Saturday, 21 November, 2009
Event: Songcraft Mini-Concert ’09 “Originally Yours” Date: 21st Nov ’09 Time: 730pm-930pm Venue: Play Den@Arts House What can I say? Another annual Songcraft concert (our 3rd one so far), another highly-memorable event. Now I am quite an easily-satisfied person, but in all honesty…I really felt that everything went PERFECT tonight. And I really want to [...]
Concert
Friday, 20 November, 2009
Tomorrow’s the 3rd annual Songcraft concert. Everyone’s pumped up for it, which is very encouraging. It makes all the preparations seem worth it. I’m really pumped up for the concert too, cos this is the first time we’re holding it in a slightly more posh venue, so I’m really excited to see how things turns [...]
