Music & Arts
May 2022 Music & Arts
Music with Mussorgsky’s Composition.
The children researched, had meetings and visited SCO and National Gallery as part of the process to use arts to interpret and express Mussorgsky’s work.
The programme included storytelling, engaging in conversations with MP Henry Kwek and Orchestra Conductor Mr. Wong Kahchun.
” I started my music journey as a trumpet player in Primary 1.
My mathematics teacher gave me an opportunity to join the school band. This innocent act of opening a door; it changed my life. It now matters very much to me that as an artist that I’m able to open little doors and windows of opportunities for even younger artists.
These young adults, these artists, teach us adults so much.
In this very difficult world that we live in where boundaries and borders are being set up, our children teach us that it is okay to smile together, to imagine things together and to be in the same space together, without pride, without prejudice. And I believe that this is the way we learn from our children. “
Kahchun Wong, one of the world’s top classical music conductors, aged below 40.
” The children were moving their bodies along with music throughout the concert. One girl sat and watched us without blinking her eyes.They were especially captured by the rhythm and the tune of the Blue Danube. The children said their favourite piece of music was the Aria from Dvorak’s opera Rusalka.”
Terresa Huang Ting Yu
Cellist, SCO
