I’d like to introduce you to Xing, a young & new talent who has just launched his debut single.
To listen to his single in youtube, click: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv4sOwrUtUU
Xing is Ivonne’s vocal student who’s a real sweetheart! He is really just sweet, kind-hearted, and very down-to-earth. Plus, he’s good-looking & has a real talent too! You may [...]
Last Friday, we went to Usmar Ismail hall to watch Al-Izhar Community Orchestra & Al-Izhar Community Choir in concert. MUSIC RÉPUBLICAIN is one of the sponsors, and the orchestra & the choir have been practicing in our school for quite some time, so we were really looking forward to watching them in real action!
And what [...]
We went to watch T’ang Quartet’s performance last Thursday in Erasmus Huis. The producer of the concert was a friend of ours, so despite the heavy traffic, we knew we had to persevere. We really wanted to be there to show support for our friend.
Honestly, I didn’t really set any expectation for the concert before [...]
Continued from my previous post….
So I learned that the mysterious telephone bidder for the two relics at the YSL-Bergé auction last week turned out to be a Chinese collector who did not plan to pay for them. His name is Cai Mingchao, a consultant for China’s National Treasure Fund, an organization created to buy back [...]
I’ve developed a rather new habit of reading a world history book and browsing through a world atlas before I sleep at night. I found that my mind was oftentimes restless at night. The history book and the world map serve as my bed-time story, I can always sleep peacefully shortly thereafter.
Anyways, the other night [...]
The biggest private art auction in history ended at the Grand Palais in Paris Wednesday night. The final sale of the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé collection brought the grand total to 373.5 million euros, or $484.6 million.
These are the rat & rabbit fountainheads, currently being the object of controversy. China claimed that these [...]
A couple of days ago, we watched “Republik Petruk” –a work by the critically acclaimed Teater Koma, in Graha Bhakti Budaya Taman Ismail Marzuki . As you might have known, “Republik Petruk” is Teater Koma’s 116th production, and is the last sequel of the Republik Trilogy written by Nano Riantiarno (1st: Republik Bagong (2001), 2nd: [...]
Symphonia Vienna from Vienna, Austria, performed in our concert hall last Sunday (January 18th, 2009). They performed “Concertino in Ancient Style” for Two Harps & String Orchestra (Maciej Malejcki), with Hans-Peter Manser as their conductor. Julia Reth was the 1st harpist, and also performing with them as the 2nd harpist is none other than our [...]
I’ve been accustomed to many chinese traditions and beliefs for as long as I can remember. My grandparents from both sides of my parents came from China. I remembered how I used to have difficulties communicating with my grandma as she only spoke cantonese (while the only words I knew in cantonese were: ” [...]
There was a 3/4-page of coverage about Jakarta International Community Choir (JICC) on Kompas, yesterday. Within about 48 hours since I got my morning newspaper yesterday, we’ve had nearly 150 new members registering online! So if you’ve always wanted to join JICC, but somehow haven’t managed to..perhaps this is the perfect timing to come along!!
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