saturday post

went to esplanade to watch the SYF Celebrations Opening Show. it was held at Esplanade Concert Hall. 

the show was quite short. only an hour. but the items are wonderful. there was the display band from TKSS, combined chinese orchestra from maris stella high and mayflower, dance performances by ang mo kio sec, riverside, katong convent and woodgrove primary, drums performance by edgefield secondary and finally a combined schools choir consisting of a few primary schools and secondary schools. 

my favourite was the chinese orchestra performance and the combined schools choir performance. the chinese orchestra conductor is a super cool guy. i watched him conduct last year, with his polytechnic chinese orchestra, and they were playing KPOP songs! this time the songs are 男儿当自强 and bon jovi's It's My Life. 

this conductor will interact with the audience, telling all of us to clap our hands or shout Ha. :D

the combined schools choir, led by choir conductor mr darius lim. heard his name before a few times, and he was my ex show choir president's conductor when she was in primary school. she kept on telling me how good mr darius lim is. last year when my show choir went to syf, we sang a song that was composed by him. 

i was actually involved in SYF Celebrations 2 years ago, working with the teachers from MOE Arts Education Branch. that time was held at Gardens By The Bay. this year it became bigger and was held at Esplanade. i think Esplanade is better, at least it is air conditioned, especially with the crazy weather right now that everyone is perspiring major big time. 

good job to all the teachers who were involved in this big scale SYF Celebrations! especially to the teachers from Arts Education Branch. :)