Check this web:http://www.chinese-orchestra.com/syf/official-syf-day-3-thread-(sec-2009)/
Some excerpts...
43. Nan Chiau High School 海上第一人 - 鄭和 (Silver)
Sad but i am proud of it...
Clrnc
Re: Official SYF day 3 thread (SEC 2009) reply #10 at http://www.chinese-orchestra.com/ on: April 22, 2009, 09:46:53 PM
nanchiau should have got gold. zhong hua should have got gwh...but i am thinking their conductor(the same) arranged the set piece not to the judge likings because their choice piece was very very difficult.
Thanks!
errorinbrain
Re: Official SYF day 3 thread (SEC 2009) reply #13 at CO@SG on: April 23, 2009, 04:46:53 PM »
Hiess.I think the schools who paticipate in this year's SYF are really good.Especially Nan Chiau High School, they really deserve a GOLD manzxzxzx.Any idea why they got SILVER instead ?!?!?!Reply soon wor. Lurbzxzzxzxzxz you.
haha
welly
Re: Official SYF day 3 thread (SEC 2009) reply #15 at CO@SG on: April 23, 2009, 05:27:35 PM »
Agree that their choice piece was too difficult . i heard friends that nan chiau & zhonghua played very well but with unexpected result .
Haiz...xu lao shi...
seraphina
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Re: Official SYF day 3 thread (SEC 2009) reply #17 at http://www.chinese-orchestra.com/ on: April 23, 2009, 06:48:31 PM »
i think all the schools did qutie well.The award doesnt really matters. It's the harwork and effort that has been put into performing that counts.
Yep, i totally agree...
Clrnc
Musician OfflinePosts: 51
Re: Official SYF day 3 thread (SEC 2009) reply #19 at CO@SG on: April 23, 2009, 08:50:17 PM
Xu YiPing arranged Nan Chiau set piece in a way they stopped before the kuai ban and then continued, i think thats where they lost alot of points. And furthermore, they chose that difficult choice piece, with luo wei lun the composer as judge which meant any error will be hugely magnified as well.zhong hua played very well but once again i think its xu yiping way of arrangement which didn't match the judge flavours. I think Woodgrove was slightly better than ZhongHua, but both should have got gwh.
XU LAO SHI!! cant help but mourn at our loss...
iloveCO
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Re: Official SYF day 3 thread (SEC 2009) reply #21 at CO@SG
I think SAC did really well this year , as like, infront of them were gwh schools, and they still can get a gold, though their some parts wrong here and there. I also heard that nan chiau laughed at them, when they went backstage, and some teacher rolled eyes at them.
Puh-leese...all of us were shedding tears of happiness.Did i hear laughter? NOPE!
DiziRocks
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Re: Official SYF day 3 thread (SEC 2009) reply #22 at CO@SG on: April 23, 2009, 10:32:36 PM »haha, i guess the results were retribution to them. No school should laugh at other schools.
-janz
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Re: Official SYF day 3 thread (SEC 2009) reply #23 at CO@SG on: April 23, 2009, 11:00:07 PM »
hmmm,i don't think its really fair for you to say that,cos afterall, i've heard them perform tht day , & personally,i felt tht it was a gold standard.so i think 'retribution' isnt a good word to put in esp,when it was just a rumour tht NCHS CO laughed at SAC CO etc.plus, i think tht you should'nt laugh at other school'sresults cos even you, said this,"No school should laugh at other schools."so yea,thts my opinion.
You are our saviour!
Clrnc
Musician OfflinePosts: 51
Re: Official SYF day 3 thread (SEC 2009) reply #24 at CO@SG on: April 23, 2009, 11:13:05 PM »
i think nchsco was better than sacco anyway that day
Thank you so much!
quintessential
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Re: Official SYF day 3 thread (SEC 2009) reply #25 at CO@SG on: April 23, 2009, 11:23:48 PM »
I think nan chiau got Silver cuz they chose the wrong choice piece....but they probably chose their choice peice before they knew who the judges were so perhaps, it's just their luck >.< (xia fei yun conducted yue er gao before, but by the time snco found out that he's the conductor, sn alr chose yue er gao as their choice piece)furthermore, if luo wei lun the composer didn't think that nan chiau expressed what he wanted to express when he wrote that piece....>.
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limwy
Greenhorn OfflinePosts: 14
Re: Official SYF day 3 thread (SEC 2009) reply #26 at CO@SG on: April 24, 2009, 12:40:49 AM »
no offence but i didn't think nau chiau was up to the gold standard yet... they were not very stable plus i think because they changed some of the notes to an octave lower... which well maybe changed what the song was supposed to be like... anyway. that song was challenging and nau chiau was brave enough to choose that song. it's already an accomplishment for that. correct me if i'm wrong.
Ditto.Thanks for the brave word though. Frankly we are just charging blindly.
Minhui
Principal Player OfflinePosts: 68
Re: Official SYF day 3 thread (SEC 2009) reply #29 at CO@SG on: April 24, 2009, 09:57:59 AM »
no pun intended. but i agree as well. their choice is too grand a piece for syf, the composer's one of the judges, they doubled instrument parts on other instruments for quantity sound and changed many initial ideas & sound effects that mr lwl's intended. perhaps that is why, like clrnc mentioned earlier, they're heavily penalized (?).
Sharp ears you got there. And 'too grand'?
Yuheng
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Re: Official SYF day 3 thread (SEC 2009) reply #30 at CO@SG
Nan Chiau's choice piece, 海上第一人 - 鄭和, is one of my favourite pieces. For a secondary school orchestra to even attempt to play this piece, much less use it in SYF, is really bold.2 years ago, when I performed this piece with SYCO and SCO, I feel we didn't do a very good job of it, which shows the level this piece required. Mr Law is very proud of this composition, and has very high expectations of anyone who performs it.
Ok, i believe you (grand only though). A deadly factor too.
ahchew
Greenhorn OfflinePosts: 5
Re: Official SYF day 3 thread (SEC 2009) reply #31 at CO@SG on: April 24, 2009, 06:03:54 PM »
Zhco's chosen piece was ' xiang xi feng qing'. We worked hard to perform that song. XYP gave us that song because she believed that this batch could actually play this song well and we did. Although we didn't get gwh, we still believe that we're gwh. Some things went wrong though. It was a very emotional event, and i really thought that we did very good (not to boast or anything). Our dajiyue was totally awesome. Xiang xi requires lots of skills and practise. That's why we were saddened to get gold. 'Guess we can't question the judges' credibility huh. Anyways,Congratulations to all COs. See you in the CO SYF '09. (:
Same sentiments here.(the bold ones)
NCHSCO
Greenhorn OfflinePosts: 1
Re: Official SYF day 3 thread (SEC 2009) reply #41 at CO@SG on: April 24, 2009, 07:38:46 PM »
in my opinion, i highly presume its a misunderstanding, for i'm the student conductor of NCCO. the teacher-in-charge is one of the disciplinary teacher in my school and perhaps she may be judge as stern but i felt otherwise. besides that, i cant deny the fact that she's very strict with us. however, she always taught us to be humble. our daji player also don't see themselves who can play well. lastly, i must emphasise again that this matter is perhaps a misunderstanding.
Some clearing up going on here..and its true, Ms Ng is rather strict. Futhermore, we are so tearing up, and how did you see the laughter directed at the other COs?
yijing
Musician OfflinePosts: 59
Re: Official SYF day 3 thread (SEC 2009) reply #37 at CO@SG on: April 24, 2009, 07:07:13 PM »
please stop commenting on whether an orchestra was better than another, or whether any orchestra didn't deserve the award given.when the comments come out then you won't even have to say anything any more. each orchestra has its own unique way of expressing itself and yeah well if people can't appreciate it thats just too bad - the judges do, and thats what mattered more at that point in time.i think that all schools that got GWH are around the same - there's no basis for music other than feeling, rhythm and accuracy. in the end it all comes to down to that 12 minutes or so on stage, where loads of things could happen for the better or the worse.so don't be biased when you say whether an orchestra deserved it or not..that 12 minutes does make a lot of difference. and even though loads of you say that temasek or ngee ann or evergreen doesn't deserve their GWH, its over. at least spare a thought for what they're feeling.
TY. but that didnt stop tongues from wagging though.(no pun intended)
i love sheng(:
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Re: Official SYF day 3 thread (SEC 2009) reply #50 at CO@SG on: April 25, 2009, 12:01:43 PM »
yeah.i think its just a misunderstanding.but,its over(:anws,u all aimed for a gold right?
xinru
Greenhorn OfflinePosts: 10
Re: Official SYF day 3 thread (SEC 2009) reply #62 at CO@SG on: April 26, 2009, 05:47:12 PM »
it's really not very nice to critisize other COs! Every CO is unique in their own ways! N the music they play give different kind of gan jue to different people! so yupyups! congrats to all COs on day 3! :D:D
haha, totally agree!
kahmun
