Front Row

The Tanjai Kamalaa Indira Dance School, established in 1966 is the longest operating dance training school in Malaysia. Over the years they have had thousands of students and put on numerous performances. Their latest production is called Sri Valli Thirumanam, and the Founder and Principal of TKI Dance School, (Nattuva Thilagam) Mrs Indira Manikam and lead Actor/Dancer Kamini Manikam join us to tell us what the show is all about.

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A conversation on what to look out for to enter into the world of a particular piece of contemporary dance. Suhaili discusses themes and styles and points out to the need beyond the merely ‘I like it or I don’t’ by looking for patterns.

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Sacred music gets some attention with the upcoming festival which will run from June through to August. The conductor and artistic director of choirs which specialize in singing sacred music, tells about Beethoven and his small but very significant contribution to this particular genre, and hints of the composer’s own spiritual journey.

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The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus is sending this production “Don Quixote, A Man of La Mancha” a musical to Ningbo, China to participate in the Tri Campus Arts Festival after performances in Seremban and Kuala Lumpur. Our guests share with us the birth of this production and why the university has chosen this work to feature and orchestrating the production with both Western and Asian instruments; and point out why this Spanish work has themes which resonate even with modern readers and audiences that Cervantes’ novel continues to be read and translated.

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The curator, a graduate in architecture, curates an exhibition which looks at both the quantifiable and the unquantifiable in aesthetics and creativity. He tells about the Fibonacci sequence, golden ratios and Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man and then leads into the works of local artists who sculptures beg our engagement

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Speak Easy is a monthly spoken word poetry show featuring local talents every first Tuesday of the month. The pilot episode introduces three published poets who are also spoken word performers. This month’s writing prompt is: There is a very strong relationship between Malaysians and food. Tell us how would you eat poetry.

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4:38 - Melizarani T Selva - Indiantity

12:24 - Alana Azlan - I’m in Here

19:58 - Sheena Baharudin - Merdeka

30:12 - Writing Prompt

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In the third in the series on music, our guest shares on the contributions of Baroque music and the emergence of the sonata, the suite and the concerto. Now names of musicians familiar to contemporary ears come to the fore, with Bach, Vivaldi, Handel and Telemann.

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Catching the resident conductor just as he is about to step into a rehearsal and listening to him explain his approach to preparing to conduct whether it is classical music or popular music as in a musical. He responds to the question, “What is the difference between an opera and a musical?”

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Sarah-Louise returns to BFM. When she was last here, in May 2014, she tells the Julie Andrews (of ‘Sound of Music’) story. This time around , she and her co-star are here to tell about a comedy--the troubled life of a singer--tortured by jealousy and unrequited love.

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The actors tell us about the need for musical theatre training and getting jobs, shedding light on how well trained actors and performers are in England and the United States where both have spent time. They also tell about Dama Asia’s upcoming production where they play father (Chako) and daughter (Michelle), and some of the challenges they have to overcome.

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