Sunday, December 17, 2006
just came back from tj band concert Fiesta Groove not long ago. went there with khiapeng, zhiling and ying to support xinyi who is playing at the concert. sad to say, the concert was a rather big disappointment. 1stly, the MCs are really very unprofessional, making crude comments and jokes and laughing at their own jokes, esp the one who is called mariam. was rather irritated by their hostings. next, the coordination and timing of the different instruments was poor and out of timing. you can actually hear the 2 notes being played apart by maybe 1s. not only that, some instruments were even played out of tune and its so very obvious. the overall appearance of the performance were very poor too. the trumpet players at the back were moving a lot, making a very big distraction. 2 of them were even talking to each other for a short while. and because i think they have a shortage of performers, some of them had to move from instrument to instrument, making the whole concert seem very messy. and when the percussion players put down their drumsticks, they did it so unglamly that the sound of the drumsticks hitting the stage could be heard at my postition and i am not even near the stage. even the vocalists from nanyang academy of fine arts were not impressive too. the female vocalist breathed thru the mike while catching a breadth and it was so very loud! the 1st male vocalist had such a dead and sleepy look on his face while singing that we couldnt help but laugh when we saw his face. all in all, the concert was quite a disappointing one but its nobody's fault for it is not even the actual TJC band. confused? let me explain. the performers tonight include guest performers from quite a few sec 4 students from schools such as VS, TKGS, TKSS etc. as a result, the coordination and standard is of course not as good as that of pure tjc students. "authentic" tjc band does not have such poor standards. take the alumni band that performed for example. their 2 pieces were so many times better that those played by the mix of tj students and sec 4 students from the sec sch. this is needless to say isnt it? its tjc band we are talking about. of course the high quality and standard is there. the songs that were played by the students tonight were nice but sadly, kinda spoilt by them. only the pirates of the carribean and the chrismas songs mix were a bit better. but on account that the concert tonight was made up of students from various sch. the poor quality can be forgiven. have faith in TJC and worry not. =) Faith ends where worry begins, and worry ends where faith begins.
TJC symphonic band
tried to capture the whole stage on camera but not successful
close up view of the front
the best moment prob came at the end of the concert when the college anthem was played, giving me such a strong nostalgic feeling. stood at attention there, listening to the anthem again after such a long time, and the pride of being once a TJcian came back again. tj cheers followed after the college anthem, with the popular "we are the best, so you better not mess, so you better not fool cause we are cool" cheer as well as other cheers. was brought back to the days when i was still a TJcian days tonight. a pity none of my classmates or teachers were present i think. but is ok. once a TJcian, always a TJcian. i will be back for more TJ events, and always will be. TJC rocks. For college For nation. =)