Front Row

The musician lectures music at an academy and so shares the changing shape of jazz music as played by the younger generation. What are their influences? But beyond the rich Polish music tradition the changing technologies and the evolving trumpet.

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She ‘paints’ without a brush. Instead she does with a basketball; chopsticks; cups, staining the base with coffee; with flowers; even with socks. The artist talks about her creative process and the business of art.

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The wheelchair bound choreographer and dancer who was a winner of the  World Wheelchair Dance Championship, talks about the need to dance in order to find himself. And then extending his dance-and-movement knowledge to other people who are also in wheelchairs but who also desire to experience dance and movements not limited by the practical considerations of getting from point A to B.

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Explaining children’s theatre and what productions do to take these very young patrons of the arts into an imaginary world, engaging them and making them think, evaluate and feel. Of course, the inevitable question: Where does moral ambiguity fit into this kind of world?

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After his sojourn in Berlin, Germany, the dancer encapsulates his journey and experiences in dances that he himself choreographed, and in some, danced. The music is composed and provided by Christoph Wirth, a Berliner. Joelle Jacinto joins to tell about this full-length contemporary dance.

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A discussion on Bricolage, an exhibition by artists who are spending their residency at Rimbun Dahan. Bricolage because these artists, collectively, present works which are different not only in their genres and medium used, but also in their perspectives.

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The singer-lyricist, Janet Lee and the music composer-director, Tay Cher Siang unfold the reasons and describe the four-year process to produce this music collection (in a CD) and the accompanying solo concert. Sometimes the composition begins with the lyrics first, sometimes with the music dictating but both beginning with the singer and her style in mind.

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The pianist-performer, because he acts beyond tickling the ivory keys, tells about his part piano recital, part fantasy lecture, which presents all the physical, emotional and spiritual anatomy of the piano.  He dissects the piano and we dissect his methods.

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Os Arun will be concert at the Temple of Fine Arts and so we learn about this carnatic musician who is described as ‘most gifted of his generation’.  This singer has appeared as Kovalan in an Indian Opera held as part of the offerings in the Singapore Arts Festival.

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Here two years ago, the New York-based, Hong Kong-born guitarist is back in town to play jazz. He takes the opportunity to give us a view into the contributions of the electric guitar to jazz and how the guitar lends to improvisation.

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