Kahchun Wong/Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore, 26th September 2020
What goes through the mind of an orchestral musician when they only have a few notes to play? Are they compiling a mental shopping list for the homeward supermarket trip? Or are they furiously counting tacet bars until their moment of glory? Two players found themselves in this position in the Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s latest (online) subscription concert: Lim Meng Keh (crotales) in Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (just 10 chimes); and Jon Paul Dante (trumpet) in Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll (13 bars). Bit parts, certainly, but the icing without which the compositional cake wouldn’t be complete.
Lim Meng Keh
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