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JB Classical Music Festival 2017
Dates: 27 – 29 July 2017
Venue: Amari Johor Bahru and Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios
Website: http://jbifc.co/cmf
From love and heartbreak, seduction and sacrifice; classical meets jazz, and East meets West. The JB Classical Music Festival 2017 returns bigger and better, with not one, but TWO orchestras in this year’s line-up.
Catch award-winning orchestra Siam Sinfonietta, the Philharmonic Winds of Malaysia with acclaimed euphonium soloist Bastien Baumet, and many more world-class musicians from Spain, France, Japan, Thailand and Malaysia in a 3-day celebration of the finest music.
Some of the highlights of The JB Classical Music Festival 2017 include:
The Empire Strikes a Chord: The Music of Star Wars Through the Lens of Classical Music
A light saber appears. A planet explodes. Love blossoms – love dies. Heroes and villains clash in a galaxy far, far away. And behind all this is music: music that enhances what is, or music that foreshadows what is to be. The composer’s craft is that art of communication, whether it’s music that speaks to us directly, or music that affects us on some subconscious level.
The iconic music of Star Wars draws on music from our own history – and musicologist Dr Andrew Filmer will take us on a journey through both sound and stars, exploring the why and how of the music of the Star Wars saga.
Saturday, 29 July 2017, 1130 hours
Ballroom, Amari Johor Bahru
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Violin Anatomy 101: Understanding String Instruments from the Inside Out
Plates, bouts, purfling, bass bars – all of these and more form the complex language of the violin maker, in creating an instrument with well over fifty individual parts. And yet on a fundamental level it’s simply the fine-tuned craft of shaping wood: depth, shape, density, all coming together to bring us the beautiful tones that have charmed composers, performers and audiences through the centuries.
The craft that makes the art is often hidden from view, but with this session we get a first-hand look at how a stringed instrument comes into being, being transported into the workshop of Malaysian violin maker Tan Chin Seng, whose instruments are now in increasingly high demand.
Friday, 28 July 2017, 1600 hours
Ideas Room at Amari Johor Bahru
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Programme
Kako – Waltz in the Evening Glow (3 min)
Chausson – Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 30 (Simple et sans hate) (7 min)
Kako – Is Paris Burning (4 min)
Turina – Piano Quartet in A Minor, Op. 67 (17 min)
Intermission (15 min)
Fauré – Piano Quartet No. 1, in C minor, Op. 15 (29 min)
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For more information on the different workshops and concerts lined up in the JB Classical Music Festival 2017, head on to their website here!
