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 ‘Songwriters’ 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 [...]
Review: The Adventures of the Mad Chinaman
Wednesday, 25 May, 2011
Event: Fantastic Entertainment Presents “The Adventures of the Mad Chinaman” (starring Dick Lee) Venue: Esplanade Recital Studio Run: 24th May – 26th May 2011 It’s hard to believe that Dick Lee, by far Singapore’s most accomplished and well-known singer-songwriter and composer of musicals, has not performed in a formal concert setting since his Kallang Theatre [...]
Local Singer-Songwriters
Wednesday, 1 December, 2010
I always enjoy checking out the original music of our local singer-songwriters, especially so if the songs are easily accessed online. It is very encouraging to know that we have a number of very talented aspiring singer-songwriters out there. Although most of them are very good in their delivery, me being me I usually tend [...]
Mignight Train
Tuesday, 16 March, 2010
This song has been getting loads of airplay recently, and it is starting to grow on me. I think it’s a wonderful song, and Alarice has got a beautiful voice. I was just reading the papers today about singer-songwriter Zee Avi, and it occurred to me how there have been a few really talented young [...]
Should Be A Good Year Ahead
Friday, 5 February, 2010
This year has been coming along great, especially in these last two weeks. It has been an eventful last two weeks, and thoroughly enjoyable. Was fortunate enough to be able to do quite a bit of networking, and made a number of new friends and contacts in the last two weeks, in various areas. Managed [...]
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 [...]
The Emotional Connection
Tuesday, 28 July, 2009
I can’t speak for all songwriters, but when I’m trying to write songs the most important thing to me is that the songs should establish an “emotional connection” with the listener. And the earlier in the song that the emotional connection can be established, the better. The method doesn’t really matter – you could be [...]
Songcraft Turns 2!
Sunday, 19 April, 2009
(Photo courtesy of B) Songcraft turned 2 last week, and I thought it’d be appropriate for me to share my thoughts: It was a great event at the Earshot Cafe, though it was a pity that a few of our regulars couldn’t join us that night. Anyhow, the entire night went great and I have [...]
