K and I went to the Esplanade to watch a concert by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, conducted by Erich Kenzel. It was a collection of the best movie theme songs. This is the first time I managed to attend a concert of only soundtrack and movie songs. Although the tickets were expensive, but we managed to get the stall seats, almost in front of the stage.
Tip of the day : Never choose the seats right at the corners of the stall. If you have to sit in the stall seats, choose the middle seats. I emerged with a sore neck after the first half. After the intermission, K and I decided to move a few places to the back where we could see more of the performers and not strain our necks.
The orchestra started with a grand Olympic Fanfare, followed by a medley of Disney Classics - "Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah" from "Song Of The South", "Chim Chim Cheerie" and "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from "Mary Poppins", "Mickey Mouse Club" and "It's A Small World". "My Heart Will Go On" from "Titanic" followed next, and the conductor put in the theme from "Lawrence of Arabia" as a bonus.
The first half ended with medley of songs from Disney films like "Beauty And The Beast" and "Aladdin". At this juncture, there was even a baritone who came out to croon all the songs. The first half was good as I could really imagine watching the shows while listening to the tunes. Especially for the "Titanic" tune, I could still remember crying over Jack Dawson dying and urging Rose to live on.
The second half consisted of more songs from various shows like "Star Trek", "Apollo 13", "Lord Of The Rings", "The Godfather", "Mission Impossible", "Goldfinger" and a medley of John Williams' hits like "Jaws", "Harry Potter", "E.T.", "Superman" and "Star Wars". The tunes were all abridged from the original soundtracks. I was not very impressed with "Lord Of The Rings" as I feel that the original tune from the movie is ten times better. "The Godfather" was not tragic enough as well. They played a tragic tune into something more light-hearted.
The program stated "Phantom Of The Opera", but in the end that was substituted with "Cats". Actually I was waiting to hear "Music Of The Night" but somehow "Memories" took over. And the two songs I really wanted to hear - "Forrest Gump Suite" and "Chariots Of Fire" were not played.
Tomorrow's program will consist of songs from more classic movies like "Ben Hur", "Gone With The Wind" and "Dr Zhivago". A pity we only bought tickets to one show and not both. But overall, it was a pretty good performance. Soundtrack music, especially good soundtrack music, is beautiful, soothing and inspirational in nature. Like the saying goes, a picture paints a thousand words, but in this case, music, as in real good music, consists of a thousand pictures.
Tip of the day : Never choose the seats right at the corners of the stall. If you have to sit in the stall seats, choose the middle seats. I emerged with a sore neck after the first half. After the intermission, K and I decided to move a few places to the back where we could see more of the performers and not strain our necks.
The orchestra started with a grand Olympic Fanfare, followed by a medley of Disney Classics - "Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah" from "Song Of The South", "Chim Chim Cheerie" and "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from "Mary Poppins", "Mickey Mouse Club" and "It's A Small World". "My Heart Will Go On" from "Titanic" followed next, and the conductor put in the theme from "Lawrence of Arabia" as a bonus.
The first half ended with medley of songs from Disney films like "Beauty And The Beast" and "Aladdin". At this juncture, there was even a baritone who came out to croon all the songs. The first half was good as I could really imagine watching the shows while listening to the tunes. Especially for the "Titanic" tune, I could still remember crying over Jack Dawson dying and urging Rose to live on.
The second half consisted of more songs from various shows like "Star Trek", "Apollo 13", "Lord Of The Rings", "The Godfather", "Mission Impossible", "Goldfinger" and a medley of John Williams' hits like "Jaws", "Harry Potter", "E.T.", "Superman" and "Star Wars". The tunes were all abridged from the original soundtracks. I was not very impressed with "Lord Of The Rings" as I feel that the original tune from the movie is ten times better. "The Godfather" was not tragic enough as well. They played a tragic tune into something more light-hearted.
The program stated "Phantom Of The Opera", but in the end that was substituted with "Cats". Actually I was waiting to hear "Music Of The Night" but somehow "Memories" took over. And the two songs I really wanted to hear - "Forrest Gump Suite" and "Chariots Of Fire" were not played.
Tomorrow's program will consist of songs from more classic movies like "Ben Hur", "Gone With The Wind" and "Dr Zhivago". A pity we only bought tickets to one show and not both. But overall, it was a pretty good performance. Soundtrack music, especially good soundtrack music, is beautiful, soothing and inspirational in nature. Like the saying goes, a picture paints a thousand words, but in this case, music, as in real good music, consists of a thousand pictures.
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If only they have anime and game theme songs...
hi. i think it's not a guaranteed perfect vision if you got high astig. my hubby went and did it in US for about US$1,500 and he has got high astig...still have some small degree of short- sightedness like 50 to 100.
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