Again Jinbo Huang brought his students to Wesley for a concert outing. I've seen several of these and they are always rewarding, starting as they are with younger, newer players on simpler yet still satisfying pieces, and working up to the major works and perhaps working up in volume. Certainly volume this day! The other aspect I noticed this was the arrival of film and game themes. I've been watching this is classical outings and even played a very successful and popular film theme outing with NCO so I was not at all surprised. Film and games is a location for much contemporary orchestral and classical instrumental music these days. I expect the film connections but I'm old enough to be somewhat flummoxed by the games, but so be it. Things change. Games are a huge business and composition is part of it. So the concert started with the theme from Interstellar and finished with some very raucous Game of Thrones music, with Bach and Haydn and Chopin and Schubert and a few lesser names between. I'll just mention the final two players. Charles Huang with some delightful Schubert impromptus and Damien Ruan with some very stormy and voluminous Game of Thrones music. Suffice to say I set my recording levels on Damien's warmup.
Charlie Sanoubane, Arabella Lu, Khloe Chen, Frank Huang, Naomi Feng, William Mon, Charles Huang and Damin Ruan (pianos) from the studio of Jinbo Huang played at Wesley.
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