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Give and Take (Back & Forth)
Celebrating the milestones of two music icons in one show
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Give and Take (Back and Forth)
March 3 2023, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, Conservatory Concert Hall, 7.30pm The T'ang Quartet took the 30th anniversary finale concert home on March 3 at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (YST), where they are Quartet-In-Residence. The upcoming show drew a close to the quartet's successful Anniversary Season that begun last year, with the ensemble presenting three concerts between April and October. Titled, Give and Take (Back & Forth), the gig was of much significance as it was also part of YST's 20th Anniversary 2022/2023 Season programme, thus celebrating two Singapore music icons in one show. As the last major concert of T'ang Quartet's Anniversary Season, the ensemble pulled all the stops to wow the audience. The programme comprised three sterling works from two outstanding composers – French composer, pianist and conductor Maurice Revel, and Singaporean composer Chen Zhangyi (top right). Chen (b.1984) is an assistant professor at YST where he teaches analysis and composition. He is also an accomplished conductor, violinist and violist. The programme underscored the collaborative effort between T'ang Quartet and Chen. On this evening, Chen debuted the titular string quartet work, Give and Take (Back and Forth), specially for T'ang Quartet, as a centrepiece of the programme, alongside another work of his, Twin Cinema for String Nonet, which was previously commissioned by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO). The music of Chen has been described as “music from a voice of the future” by BBC Radio 3. |
THE STRAITS TIMES March 5, 2023 T'ang Quartet's Fruitful Partnership March 3, Conservatory Concert Hall, Yong Siew Toh 
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Photo by Chang Tou Liang
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