Hello to all.

This will be the final arrangements of parts for both Main Band and Wind Ensemble.

Eb
Gerald

1st Clarinet
Francesca
Betty

2nd Clarinet
Hasniza
Joseph

3rd Clarinet
Evelyn
Eileen( not involve in ensemble)
Leon

Bass Clarinet
ZhiJie
ShuWen


Orchestra
Francesca
Joseph


NEXT, Sectionals will be on

• 12 October 2009(Monday, 3pm- 5pm)
• 14 October 2009(Wednesday, 3pm-5pm)
• 17 October 2009(Saturday, Time to be confirmed)

ALSO, In conjunction of people having attachment and working, the attendance rate decreased. Hence, starting from 6 October 2009 till the concert, please maintain at least 85% attendance. For people who missed band practice from 14 October 2009 to 6 October 2009, you will have to make up with either sectionals or DECLARED self- practice. Meaning you will need to inform me. Do have some initiatives on your own.

ADDITIONALLY, In disrupts of instrument loan, you will need to look for Francesca to sign in and out the instrument each time you loan.

LASTLY! PLEASE PRACTICE THE WORK GIVEN BY TANG LAO SHI.

Any unhappiness or confusion mail me at lamshuwei@hotmail.com

Ppl who are playing for ensemble

Eb - _______
1st - Betty, ________
2nd - Has, Joseph
3rd - Gerald, Evelyn
Bass - Shuwen, zhijie

there's still 2 more space for Eb and 1st. I need your help to play for the wind ensemble if you are performing for the concert.

Francesca/joseph will be contacting you all abt the band stuffs from now. Please cooperate with them :D Thanks.

Tang Xiao Ping will be teaching basics to strengthen our foundation. he will be teaching as a whole section but will also be teaching individually to cater to each needs. There will be around 2 sectionals each week. i will update everyone through here when the sectional timing is confirmed.
And please practice your pieces during your own timing so during the sectional, tang laoshi will not have to waste his time teaching the rhythm all that.

If you all know, there will be a concert during December. And our section has only 4 or 5 players who come for practice frequently. And now Dr Goh says that those who din come for the previous practice, can no need to come to the consecutive practice and will not be able to join the concert. And there's no need to ask timothy, me or Dr goh whether you can perform or not. If you still want to perform, you have to go for practice on Monday and other consecutive practices.

NO excuses for those who are having FYP or attachment not to come for band practice unless you already intend not to perform for the concert. If you are working during your holidays, you can still come after your work. Dun tell me you are tired, cuz those ppl who are working and still wants to perform will still try their best to make it for the practices.

Shuwen - M
Malcolm - M
Joseph - as large as possible
Zhijie - as large as possible
Desmond Chow - L
Jiayi - XS
Francesca - S
Evelyn - S
Gerald - M
Huimin - S
Desmond - M
SArah - S
Has - S
Jiexin - S

This is the T-shirt size for those who are going to WMC. For some who din sms me, i put S for ladies and M for guys.

TAKE NOTE!!!
New dress code for Ladies

Sinfonique 09
inform everyone abt the dress code?
Males
black leather shoes
black socks
black business dress pants
black belt
white long sleves shirt
BLACK blazer
Maroon Tie.

Ladies
Full Black (Blouse + Dress Pants) *long sleeve blouse
Black Shoes (Must be those business professional type like covered high heels/ flats. NO SNEAKERS)

Get ready your Black files by next practice.
Report at 630pm on wednesday 8th july for soundcheck practice @ auditorium
Some ppl will be sharing the instruments with the alumni and year1s.
Correct me if i'm wrong

Angeline - 394635 } sharing with Karen (Alumni)
Huimin - F___14 } sharing with Peiyi (Alumni)
Joseph - 394645 } }sharing with Huiling (Alumni)
Shuwen - sharing with Sasa (Alumni)
Zhijie - sharing with Shuting (Alumni)
Hasniza - 394658 }sharing with Minghui (Year 1)
Jiexin - 394664 }sharing with Betty (Year 1)
394660 - Eileen Ng (Year 1)
394672 - share with Jacqueline (Alumni) and Yoke Lian (Year 1)

If you have your own clarinet, please use your own if possible.


WMC
About the T-shirt size for those who are going to WMC, please sms me NOW.
Excuse letter for WMC should be ready by 13th july.

SECTIONAL for main band!!!
This sat sectional from 11pm to 3 or 4pm Tang Xiao Ping is teaching. Please eat before you come.

And happy birthday to Jiexin!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HASNIZA!!

Dress code for Sinfonique

Guys:

Black Blazer
White Long Sleeve shirt
Black pants
Black leather shoe
Maroon tie

Note: For the guys who dun have black blazer, you can borrow from the SA Office on your own, or you can borrow from friends or tailor-make your blazer.

Ladies:

Black Blazer
White Long Sleeve shirt
Black dress pants
Black ladies shoe

Note: For ladies who dun have blazer, you have to either buy one or borrow from your friend. Now is GSS, so is quite cheap for ladies blazer at those atrium sales in the mall. Or you can try Robinson sales at Expo.


There is no sectional for year 1s tmr. But there might be one on sat. Will sms you all again.

Re-audition on 23 June.
Sinfonique Concert on 10 July.
WMC on 19 July.

For Main Band
There will be sectional on Saturday from 11am taught by Desmond Chow. This 2 weeks sectional will last not only for 2 hours as we need to work out our fingering, rhythm and intonation. The sectional will only end until Desmond Chow stops. I need full attendance for this 2 weeks sectional. Only valid reason will be excused. If you have any appointments like work or rehearsals in the morning, please still come after that if possible. If you need to leave earlier, tell me earlier also.

As for the alumni practice, i will tell weixiang abt the ppl who are performing for alumni. So please attend the sectionals first.
Even though some of you might not be joining for WMC, i still hope that you come for sectionals as there is still Sinfonique to work on.
But if you really do not want to come, i will not force you and will not ask you for your reason.

And those instruments that need to be repair, please sms me now with your instrument number and what do you want to repair.

For Year 1s
As for the year1s that are performing, sectionals will be conducted on the 25 June(Thurs) at 630pm tentatively. Please do come. Any changes will sms you all again. Only valid reasons will be excused. Telling me that you have many assignments will not be excused cuz i have tons waiting for me to do too.
But If you really do not want to come, i will not ask you for reasons cuz this is your concert.

These are the parts for the year1s..
1st - Betty, Gerald
2nd - Yoke Lian, Eileen
3rd - Evelyn, Ming Hui

if you are not happy with your parts or you want to change, sms me now.

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Sorry for sounding so harsh or what, but the concert is drawing near, so i hope that our section can really improve alot.
Thanks.

Hi all,

Sectionals with Dr Goh on Tues, 16th June, 3-5pm.
Excuse letters will be given out to those who are having attachments and FYP.
It is a MUST to attend this sectional.

For every practice now, everyone have to report to the bad room by 630pm SHARP.
No latecomers and everyone has to attend warm-up.
If you are having attachments or FYP and cannot come on time, reasons must be given Timothy

please hand in the new indemnity forms on Wed when you have gotten it the next prac.
And if your instruments needs repair, send me an email.

This saturday there's sectionals. Timing to be confirmed again.

Happy Birthday to Desmond!!

And congrats to daisy, jiexin, sarah, fahmi, malcolm and hong ghee for officially graduated from NYP!!

Back to the topic.
Tang Xiao Ping will not be in Singapore until June 26, but there will be sectional on this sat 11-1pm. Please do self practice. If you are not coming please tell me.

And for this month of june, do you all want to shift the sectional from sat to friday?? It only apply for this month until Tang Xiao Ping comes back. Please either tag here or send email to me cuz my sms overlimit liao.

Good luck to all for the audition on Monday.
And please drink plenty of water. There's already one confirmed case of H1N1 in Singapore already. Please dun let yourself fall sick.

There is sectionals on every Saturday 11-1pm.

Please do come for every sectional.

Thank You.

Happy Birthday to Leon -> 28th Mar

Happy Birthday to Francesca -> 30th Mar

Happy Birthday to Huimin!!!

Back to main topic...
As you all know that Dr Goh will not be coming in for the coming 2 weeks. So there will be sectionals. Below are the date and time for sectionals.

23 mar(Monday)
6.45-9pm
Room TBC
*After 9pm will be combine

25 mar (Wednesday) - TBC

28 mar(Saturday)
1230 - 230pm
Room TBC

30 mar (Monday)
645-9pm
Room TBC
*After 9pm will be combine

1 Apr (Wednesday)
7-9pm
*After 9pm will be combine

I will try to book the rooms for sectionals. And please come :)

FYI: I will update quite frequently abt the info abt band or sectionals. So do check back here regularly.

To all year 3s

I'm not very good with words but thank you all and hope you all will get into the uni course you want and enjoy your NS life soon. :)

And one bad news is, the year 3s' deferment has failed. So we might have to reshuffle again. I hope there's not a big difference with the present state.
The confirmed ones who are going to WMC are Joseph, Huimin, Sarah, Hasniza and Francesca. Others are still pending. I hope that we all can work hard together and create a strong section.

Below are the parts newly assigned.

Bass Clarinet
Lee Zhi Jie
*Huang Shu Wen

Alto Clarinet
Leon Heng

Eb Clarinet
Liang Jiayi (guest player)

1st Clarinet
Desmond Chow (guest player)
Francesca

2nd Clarinet
*Hasniza
*Lim Huimin
Angeline Lam

3rd Clarinet
*Sarahjane
*Joseph Koh
Seah Jiexin

And and and, we seriously need more ppl to join our section. So if you have any friends or juniors that would like to join please pull them in.

REMINDER!!!!
Sectionals on this Saturday at 11am - 1pm at G217. Please be there.

Hey ppl

Next 2 weeks Dr Goh won't be coming in but there will be sectionals during the practice. So i will be asking Tang Xiao Ping laoshi to come down if possible. Please do attend the practice as usual unless you got valid reason. No reason like gathering will be accepted. If you are not coming, please tell me the earlier. Dr Goh is particular abt having sectionals, they will be monitoring the attendance and when are we having sectionals.

And please hand in the WMC and membership form to me latest by tmr. Cuz they will not be collecting it anymore.

Just a reminder that there is sectionals on this saturday at 11am. Attendance will be taken.

This will be the parts assigned.
* -> means that these ppl are confirm, 100%, guarantee will go to WMC

Bass Clarinet
Lee Zhi Jie
Huang Shu Wen

Alto Clarinet
Leon Heng

Eb Clarinet
Liang Jiayi (guest player)

1st Clarinet
Desmond Chow (guest player)
Francesca
Malcolm Sng

2nd Clarinet
*Koh Hong Ghee
*Hasniza
Desmond Wong
Fahmi

3rd Clarinet
*Sarahjane
*Joseph Koh
*Lim Huimin
Seah Jiexin
Claris Tan
Angeline Lam

This will be your parts. Pls practice~~~~
Got any complains abt the parts please tell me.
Thank you.

Hi all. This is Angeline here.
There will be some shuffling of parts for the Sinfonique and WMC. I have not really settle the parts arrangement yet, so for the time being, just stick back with the original parts till next week.
As for the sectional timing, it will continue to be on Saturday, but the timing is to be confirmed again. The sectional will most likely to start next week. Will sms you all again.

As for the attendance thingy, pls do sms me before band prac if you are not coming with your reason. So i can have a jiao dai.

Pls do practise hard for the pieces and drink more water. The weather these few days are like shit..so drink more water, dun fall sick.

Thank you.
And jiayou for those who are having attachments and fyp.
Stay tune for updates on the clar parts.

Above is the schedule for Sinfonia 2009. Please bring the appropriate attire...
For guys:
1. White long sleeve
2. Black Blazer
3. Black bow tie
4. Black dress pants
5. Black belt (if applicable)
6. Black socks
7. black dress shoes
For the bow tie I think they are giving tomorrow.

For girls:
All black.
If wearing skirt, bust be below knee length.

Please take note of the time you are required to rehearse, and be at the backstage 10 minutes before that.

Thats all... Good luck everyone... After working so hard the day is finally here... JIA YOU!!!!

Bye...

Desmond

Hi People,

Sinfonia is nearing... It's like in 5 days time... Please continue to work hard and polish up places where you need to practice... Anyway, the concert repertoir will be as follows:

Symphony No. 2 in C – 4th Movement
PI Tchaikovsky

String Ensemble
Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
Pietro Mascagni

The Young Prince and Princess
Rimsky-Korsakov

March 98
Masamicz Amano

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Malcom Arnold

Gloriosa (Symphonic Poem for Band)
Yasuhide Ito

Intermission

Percussion Ensemble
Don’t be BLUE MON
Lalo Davia

Technology
Jim Casella

Cappriccio Italien
PI Tchaikovsky

Legend of Yao
Arr. Ong Jiin Joo

Rhapsody in Blue
George Gershwin

Symphony No.1- 4th Movement
Johannes Brahms

Orpheus in the Underworld
Jacques Offenbach

When you believe
Whitney Houston/Mariah Carey (with choir and singers)

Encore:
Power of the Dream

Please have your scores in your BLACK files in th above order for subsequent practices... This is the last week of practice... I hope that everyone will hang in there and be present for all the remaining practices... COME ON!!! ITS JUST 3 MORE PRACTICES!!!!

This is the latest practice schedule

Thats all for now... Bye and take care... Don't fall sick!!!!! Drink more water and rest well...