The Fritz Quartet at Oriental Hotel

26 April 2006

Today, the Fritz Quartet was engaged to play for Singapore's very own Nanyang Technological University (NTU). We had 2 sets to play for, the cocktail reception and another dinner set.

This special function was held at the Oriental Hotel. We arrived slightly earlier to have a sound check. As the room was rather small, we decided to go without mics because we did not want to be intrusive to conversations held during dinner.

At 6.45pm sharp, we started the night off with familiar tunes such as Canon in D, Winter evening from Vivaldi's very famous "The Four Seasons" and we livened up the cocktail reception with The Overture from Rossini's "The Barber of Seville". This gathered applause from an appreciative audience who were looking at the posters on exhibition and one impressed guest even tapped me on the shoulder and went 'bravo'! I had just enough time to smile and say 'thank you' before I started on the crazy running notes of the piece! :)

We proceeded to the ballroom where we were engaged to play for another set. The smell of dinner was pleasing to our noses, I was starting to feel hungry! But this was not enough to deter us and we played our hearts out. We definitely loved our audience for the night, who put down their forks and spoons to applaud us after each piece.

It was certainly one memorable night for the Fritz Quartet!

The Fritz Quartet :)