Monday, March 26, 2012

Fritz @ Esplanade Library: ANNUAL CONCERT

26th December 2011

Some of our readers may wonder what we spent our christmas of 2011 doing. People say its good to end the year with a bang, but for those of us who really try to bang it out, we now know you have to be fully prepared and loaded to handle all the festivities!
Fritz's concert day! (left to right: Jessie, Yaw Chang, Max, Lenard)

For Fritz, preparedness means rehearsing thrice a week (take note, all of us have day jobs and social lives {or we wish to think we do}), staying till 2am to polish up music for the umpteenth time, and shutting down gig operations, all for the sake of putting up a delightful program for our listeners who came down for our December concert!
PROOF OF OUR HARD WORK

While this may sound largely patronizing, we at Fritz did sincerely see and enjoy the end point of all this. We are glad that underneath the ad hoc performances and gigs, when you boil Fritz down to its core, you still find four real musicians who know what they're doing, and more importantly, the music that the other three are playing.
Yaw Chang looking exactly like he found the music within himself.
In the end, we like that we grew more and more able as a quartet. Over these big projects, we manage to groom the cellist to hold strongly like a vase, the violist and 2 violinist to be richly fertilized soil, and the 1 violinist to bloom her pretty flowers.
(left to right: Flower, Soil, Soil, Vase)

Fritz's lower strings.
Zooming in on the concert itself, it was held humbly, in the esplanade library to an audience of less than a 100. While this wouldn't go down into the books as one of those sell out concerts, we did appreciate and opt for the maturity that comes with having a small quiet crowd over a rowdy one. It added the familiarity that we needed to house our quartet's music in. We were glad too that we were able to nest the sentimental songs that was to be our repertoire for the night.
On a less serious but equally real note, the sound and smell of meat sizzling on a grill from the cafe beside us was an unexpectedly organic part of the performance. The hunger it built kept us from slowing our music down too!

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