Front Row

Collecting and exhibiting not for the economy but for a nation’s visual representation of its history. The Director of the Bank Negara’s Museum and Art Gallery tells about its mission, permanent collection and temporary exhibitions.

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The swordsman as a dancer. Lee Wushu Arts Theatre marries the movement patterns of simulated sword fighting, dance and the martial mind. The sword is described as the ‘gentleman’ of weapons.

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The award-winning Yudi Yap, famous for the colourful cabarets of Old Shanghai Jazz halls brings us something closer to home: memorable melodies from Nanyang (aka the Malay Archipelago), the romance of 1950’s and 1960’s with a repertoire of favourite music from pre- and post-Merdeka.  She melds a hybrid of Malay melodies, Shanghai pop music mixed in with songs from Hollywood. 

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After a showing in London at an event called START, a diverse collection of works by local artists is back for an exhibition. The managing director says that these works surface the country’s untold stories.

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He plays in Gospel, blues, jazz, r&b, soul, hip-hop. Ezra and his horn has something to say. The vehicle in which he chooses to convey this message is in the form of his Debut album "The Journey".

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An interview on adapting the Bard’s comedy The Taming of the Shrew and calling it Chalo Shaadi Karenge. This play with Bollywood-styled dances and music shows how Temple of Fine Arts reimagines a 16th century play.

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The folks in the Temple of Fine Arts are gearing up for its major festival--The Shantanand Festival of Arts 2014. Our guests today paint for us the artists--musicians, dancers and other performers, and the objective of the festival.

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The singer, Dasha Logan will be a guest act of local Jazz-RnB-Hip-Hop-and-Experimental band--Bassment Syndicate--at a reggae event. She tells about singing in different styles.

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 A production born out of a collaboration between the Instant Cafe Theatre Company and CAKE Theatrical Productions in which dreams and dreamers are put under the microscope. Which of course begs the question: What happens to a dream deferred?...Does it explode?

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Detailing the benefits for young musicians and orchestras to tour and compete overseas. But then the work that goes on before: the rehearsals, the fund-raising and the logistics of organizing the little people.

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